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.
PR: 239563
Reported by: Miyashita Touka <imagin8r@protonmail.com>
Approved by: gnome (maintainer timeout)
MFH: 2020Q3
Security: 456375e1-cd09-11ea-9172-4c72b94353b5
Sponsored by: Netzkommune GmbH
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