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USN-773-1: Pango vulnerability

7 May 2009

Pango vulnerability

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Releases

Packages

Details

Will Drewry discovered that Pango incorrectly handled rendering text with
long glyphstrings. If a user were tricked into displaying specially crafted
data with applications linked against Pango, such as Firefox, an attacker
could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges
of the user invoking the program.

Reduce your security exposure

Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

Learn more about Ubuntu Pro

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect
the necessary changes.

References