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Debian DSA-1798-1 : pango1.0 - integer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38725

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Will Drewry discovered that pango, a system for layout and rendering of internationalized text, is prone to an integer overflow via long glyphstrings. This could cause the execution of arbitrary code when displaying crafted data through an application using the pango library.

Solution

Upgrade the pango1.0 packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.14.8-5+etch1.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.20.5-3+lenny1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=527474

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1798

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38725

File Name: debian_DSA-1798.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/11/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pango1.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1194

BID: 34870

CWE: 189

DSA: 1798