Buffer overflow in GNOME Pango

CVE-2011-0020

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 earlier, when the FreeType2 backend is enabled, allows user-assisted remote attackers 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 class: Buffer Overflow

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.6 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.189 (97.2th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2011-0020: held from 0.189 to 0.189.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.189 · newest: 0.189 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • GNOME Pango — versions 1.28.0, 1.28.1, 1.28.2
  • Pango — versions 0.20, 0.21, 0.22

Weakness classification (CWE)

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