CVE-2019-18397
Published: 07 November 2019
A 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.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 7.8
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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fribidi Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Not vulnerable
(0.19.7-2)
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| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Not vulnerable
(0.19.7-1)
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Not vulnerable
(0.19.6-1)
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Patches: Upstream: https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi/commit/034c6e9a1d296286305f4cfd1e0072b879f52568 |
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