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 (14)
Core 14
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4081-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4496
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/14
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D6HWAHXJ2ZXINYMANHPFDDCJFWUQ57M4/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2571
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2582
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VFFF4FY7SCAYT3EKTYPGRN6BVKZTH7Y7/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-03
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3234
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/commits/main/pango/pango-bidi-type.c
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/342
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0369
EPSS Percentile
88.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (28)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
19.04
debian/debian_linux
10.0
fedoraproject/fedora
29
fedoraproject/fedora
30
gnome/pango
1.42.0 - 1.44
oracle/sd-wan_edge
7.3
oracle/sd-wan_edge
8.0
oracle/sd-wan_edge
8.1
oracle/sd-wan_edge
8.2
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0
... and 18 more
Published
Jul 19, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026