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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…
Critical9.8EPSS 6.3%
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- dwf
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.3% · top 6.4% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- Buffer Overflow
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (14)
- USN-4081-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-4496 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 20190812 [SECURITY] [DSA 4496-1] pango1.0 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-547be4a683 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2571 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2582 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-155e34df5a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-201909-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2594 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBA-2019:2824 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3234 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/commits/main/pango/pango-bidi-type.c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/342 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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