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pango: arbitrary code execution

Package(s):pango CVE #(s):CVE-2011-0064
Created:March 2, 2011 Updated:April 1, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

It was discovered that Pango did not check for memory reallocation failures in the hb_buffer_ensure() function. An attacker able to trigger a reallocation failure by passing sufficiently large input to an application using Pango could use this flaw to crash the application or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Alerts:
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:005 2011-04-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0221-1 2011-03-24
Pardus 2011-58 2011-03-21
Fedora FEDORA-2011-3194 2011-03-12
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:040 2011-03-03
Debian DSA-2178-1 2011-03-02
Ubuntu USN-1082-1 2011-03-02
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0309-01 2011-03-01

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