CVE-2010-3444

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the log2vis_utf8 function in pyfribidi.c in GNU FriBidi 0.19.1, 0.19.2, and possibly other versions, as used in PyFriBidi 0.10.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Arabic UTF-8 string that causes original 2-byte UTF-8 sequences to be transformed into 3-byte sequences.

Affected products

Fribidi Gnu Fribidi: 0.19.1, 0.19.2
Kobi Zamir Pyfribidi: 0.10.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052935.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052936.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42868
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2676136&group_id=158366&atid=807545
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43592
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0058
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565997
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64619
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052935.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052936.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42868
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2676136&group_id=158366&atid=807545

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