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Ubuntu: USN-4081-1 (CVE-2019-1010238): Pango vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4081-1 (CVE-2019-1010238): Pango vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/19/2019
Created
08/02/2019
Added
08/01/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gir1-2-pango-1-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpango-1-0-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpango1-0-0

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