CVE-2009-1194

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the pango_glyph_string_set_size function in pango/glyphstring.c in Pango before 1.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long glyph string that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated by a long document.location value in Firefox.

Affected products

Pango: through 1.22; 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12 (+4)

References

http://github.com/bratsche/pango/commit/4de30e5500eaeb49f4bf0b7a07f718e149a2ed5e
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-08/msg00002.html
http://osvdb.org/54279
http://secunia.com/advisories/35018
http://secunia.com/advisories/35021
http://secunia.com/advisories/35027
http://secunia.com/advisories/35038
http://secunia.com/advisories/35685
http://secunia.com/advisories/35914
http://secunia.com/advisories/36005

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