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<glsa id="201909-03">
  <title>Pango: Buffer overflow</title>
  <synopsis>A buffer overflow in Pango might allow an attacker to execute
    arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pango</product>
  <announced>2019-09-06</announced>
  <revised count="1">2019-09-06</revised>
  <bug>692110</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-libs/pango" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.42.4-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.42.4-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Pango is a library for layout and rendering of internationalized text.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A buffer overflow has been discovered in Pango’s
      pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels function.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to process a specially crafted
      string with functions like pango_itemize, possibly resulting in execution
      of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of
      Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Pango users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=x11-libs/pango-1.42.4-r2"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1010238">
      CVE-2019-1010238
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-09-02T22:32:20Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-09-06T16:01:18Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>
