CVE-2009-1194

EPSS 4.9%

pango1.0 - arbitrary code execution

Published: 5/11/2009Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1194

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 packages (2)

Debian/pango1.0from 0, < 1.24.0-2
Debian/pango1.0from 0, < 1.14.8-5+etch1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1194