CVE-2011-0020

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 19%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJan 24

1st PoCJan 18

exploitation probability

19%top 3% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pango_ft2_font_render_box_glyph function in pango/pangoft2-render.c in libpango in Pango 1.28.3 and earlier, when the FreeType2 backend is enabled, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file, related to the glyph box for an FT_Bitmap object.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35232

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References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/18/6 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/20/2 http://osvdb.org/70596 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pango1.0/+bug/696616 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639882 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671122 http://secunia.com/advisories/42934 http://secunia.com/advisories/43100 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64832 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0180.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45842