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Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer...

Critical severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 4, 2024

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: The heap based buffer overflow can be used to get code execution. The component is: function name: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels, assignment of nchars and the loop condition. The attack vector is: Bug can be used when application pass invalid utf-8 strings to functions like pango_itemize.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 19, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Apr 4, 2024

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-1010238

GHSA ID

GHSA-wwvc-98fq-c42m

Source code

No known source code

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