SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-1010238

Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 6.27%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (6.27%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: The heap based buffer overflow can be used to get code execution. The component is: function name: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels, assignment of nchars and the loop condition. The attack vector is: Bug can be used when application pass invalid utf-8 strings to functions like pango_itemize.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
6.27% probability · 93th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
gnome/pango · oracle/sd-wan edge · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux · redhat/openshift container platform · redhat/enterprise linux · redhat/enterprise linux desktop · redhat/enterprise linux eus · redhat/enterprise linux server · redhat/enterprise linux server aus · redhat/enterprise linux server tus · redhat/enterprise linux workstation
Source
josh@bress.net

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.