Impact: Important Public Date: 2019-08-06 CWE: CWE-119 Bugzilla: 1737785: CVE-2019-1010238 pango: heap based buffer overflow can be used to get code execution 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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-1010238 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 9.8 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | pango | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | pango | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | pango | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | pango | Not affected |
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