CVE-2019-18397

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-18397
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-13 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:06:00 UTC
DescriptionA buffer overflow in the fribidi_get_par_embedding_levels_ex() function in lib/fribidi-bidi.c of GNU FriBidi through 1.0.7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code by delivering crafted text content to a user, when this content is then rendered by an application that uses FriBidi for text layout calculations. Examples include any GNOME or GTK+ based application that uses Pango for text layout, as this internally uses FriBidi for bidirectional text layout. For example, the attacker can construct a crafted text file to be opened in GEdit, or a crafted IRC message to be viewed in HexChat.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Gnu Fribidi All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: fribidi-1.0.5-5.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: fribidi-1.0.5-5.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: fribidi-1.0.5-5.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Truncate isolate_level to FRIBIDI_BIDI_MAX_EXPLICIT_LEVEL · fribidi/fribidi@034c6e9 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch
CVE-2019-18397 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
GNU FriBidi: Heap-based buffer overflow (GLSA 202003-41) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
'[oss-security] CVE-2019-18397 - Stack buffer overflow in GNU FriBidi >= 1.0.0' - MARC MISC marc.info Third Party Advisory
#944327 - fribidi: CVE-2019-18397 - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: fribidi-1.0.5-5.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 376906 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for fribidi (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0004)
  • 500193 Alpine Linux Security Update for fribidi
  • 503934 Alpine Linux Security Update for fribidi
  • 750026 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for fribidi (SUSE-SU-2021:1655-1)
  • 750202 OpenSUSE Security Update for fribidi (openSUSE-SU-2021:0763-1)
  • 750783 OpenSUSE Security Update for fribidi (openSUSE-SU-2021:1655-1)

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