CVE-2011-0020
N/A
Published: January 24, 2011 at 05:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:26 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsPangoPango
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 19%
Description
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.
Remediation
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References (15)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/18/6Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/20/2Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0180.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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