7.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2011-0020

Published: 24/01/2011 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.6 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
VMScore: 765
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pango_ft2_font_render_box_glyph function in pango/pangoft2-render.c in libpango in Pango 1.28.3 and previous versions, when the FreeType2 backend is enabled, allows user-assisted remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file, related to the glyph box for an FT_Bitmap object.

Vulnerability Trend

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pango pango 1.7

pango pango 1.5

pango pango 1.6

pango pango 1.17

pango pango 0.23

pango pango 1.9

pango pango 1.11

pango pango 0.22

pango pango 1.14

pango pango 1.21

pango pango 1.27

pango pango 1.1

pango pango 1.26

pango pango 1.16

pango pango 0.24

pango pango 1.8

pango pango 0.25

pango pango 1.4

pango pango 1.24

pango pango 1.19

pango pango 1.0

pango pango 1.15

pango pango 1.25

pango pango 1.10

pango pango 1.2

pango pango 1.3

pango pango 1.22

pango pango 1.18

pango pango 0.21

pango pango 0.26

pango pango 0.20

pango pango 1.12

pango pango 1.13

pango pango 1.23

pango pango 1.20

gnome pango

gnome pango 1.28.2

gnome pango 1.28.0

gnome pango 1.28.1

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #610792 CVE-2011-0020: heap corruption in libpango Package: pango10; Maintainer for pango10 is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:36:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security, squee ...
Marc Schoenefeld discovered that Pango incorrectly handled certain Glyph Definition (GDEF) tables If a user were tricked into displaying text with a specially-crafted font, an attacker could cause Pango to crash, resulting in a denial of service This issue only affected Ubuntu 804 LTS and 910 (CVE-2010-0421) ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/45842/info Pango is prone to a remote heap-corruption vulnerability An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition githubcom/offensive-security/exploitdb-bin-sploit ...