CVE-2010-0421

Summary

CVECVE-2010-0421
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-03-18 17:30:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-14 15:41:00 UTC
DescriptionArray index error in the hb_ot_layout_build_glyph_classes function in pango/opentype/hb-ot-layout.cc in Pango before 1.27.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted font file, related to building a synthetic Glyph Definition (aka GDEF) table by using this font's charmap and the Unicode property database.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Pango All All All All
Application Pango Pango All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2019-1 pango1.0 DEBIAN www.debian.org
ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pango/1.27/pango-1.27.1.tar.bz2 CONFIRM ftp.gnome.org Patch
Debian update for pango1.0 - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Pango Glyph Definition Table Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:009 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Bug 555831 – CVE-2010-0421 libpangoft2 segfaults on forged font files CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:012 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Webmail- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Webmail- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Pango GDEF Array Indexing Error in Font Library Lets Users Deny Service SECTRACK securitytracker.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2010:121 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Webmail- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:013 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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