Pardus alert 2011-42 (pango pango-docs)

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    	       Meltem  <meltem@pardus.org.tr> 
To:
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Subject:
    	       [Pardus-security]  [PLSA 2011-42] Pango: Buffer Overflow 
Date:
    	       Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:31:50 +0200
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    	       <201102141231.50948.meltem@pardus.org.tr>
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-42            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2011-02-14
  Severity: 3
      Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed  in  Pango,  which  can  potentially  be 
exploited by malicious people to cause a denial of service (application 
crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. 

Description
===========

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. 

Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    pango, all before 1.26.2-35-11
    pango-docs, all before 1.26.2-35-6

Resolution
==========

There are update(s) for pango, pango-docs.  You  can  update  them  via 
Package Manager or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up pango pango-docs

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=16763
  * http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-...

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