# CVE-2019-1010238: Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-07-19 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Gnome Pango: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Gnome Pango, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4081-1/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4496
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/14
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D6HWAHXJ2ZXINYMANHPFDDCJFWUQ57M4/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2571
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2582
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VFFF4FY7SCAYT3EKTYPGRN6BVKZTH7Y7/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-03
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2594
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3234
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/commits/main/pango/pango-bidi-type.c
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/342

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