54279 : Pango pango/glyphstring.c pango_glyph_string_set_size Function Overflow
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Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Solution Date	Disclosure Date
2009-02-22	2009-03-02	2009-05-07

Time to Patch
8 days

Keywords

6842771

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-1194" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Integer overflow in the pango_glyph_string_set_size function in pango/glyphstring.c in Pango before 1.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long glyph string that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated by a long document.location value in Firefox.

Classification

Attack Type: Denial of Service, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability
Solution: Patch / RCS
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Tools & Filters

	5101

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-05-11 | Disagree?

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