pango: code execution [LWN.net]

Package(s):

pango

CVE #(s):

CVE-2011-0020

Created:

January 27, 2011

Updated:

April 1, 2011

Description:

From the Pango advisory:

An input sanitization flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way Pango displayed font files when using the FreeType font engine back end. If a user loaded a malformed font file with an application that uses Pango, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2011-0020)

Alerts:

SUSE	SUSE-SR:2011:005	2011-04-01
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2011:0221-1	2011-03-24
Ubuntu	USN-1082-1	2011-03-02
Pardus	2011-42	2011-02-14
CentOS	CESA-2011:0180	2011-02-04
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:0180-01	2011-01-27

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