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Pango Glyph String Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Release Date: 2009-05-08 Views: 5,816
Secunia Advisory SA35021
Where:
From remote
Impact:
DoS, System access,
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch
CVE Reference(s):
Description
A vulnerability has been reported in Pango, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the library.
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error when rendering text with long glyph strings and may be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
Solution:
Update to version 1.24 or later.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Will Drewry, oCERT Team.
Original Advisory:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-001.html
Deep Links:
Links available to Secunia VIM customers
Do you have additional information related to this advisory?
Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com
Subject: Pango Glyph String Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
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