Buffer overflow in GNOME Pango
CVE-2019-1010238
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.063 (93.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.063 · newest: 0.063 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNOME Pango — versions 1.42 and later
- Oracle Sd-Wan Edge — versions 7.3, 8.0, 8.1
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 19.04
- Debian Linux — versions 10.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 29, 30
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 8.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 7.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 7.4, 7.6, 8.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 7.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus — versions 7.6, 7.7, 8.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- usn.ubuntu.com/4081-1/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4496 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/14 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2571 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2582 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-03 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-1010238?
- CVE-2019-1010238 is a critical-severity vulnerability in GNOME Pango, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-07-19.
- How severe is CVE-2019-1010238?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.