Bug 565997 (CVE-2010-3444) - CVE-2010-3444 pyfribidi: buffer overflow when processing Arabic UTF-8 strings
Summary: CVE-2010-3444 pyfribidi: buffer overflow when processing Arabic UTF-8 strings
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-3444
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 565998
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Reported: 2010-02-16 21:15 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-10-19 09:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-19 09:10:03 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2010-02-16 21:15:47 UTC 
It was reported [1] that pyfribidi contains a buffer overflow in the log2vis_utf8() function due to the assumption that the string returned by fribidi_unicode_to_utf8() will be the same length as the original UTF-8 string.  Due to changes in fribidi 0.19.1, for the Arabic language this is not the case as the joining added in fribidi causes some of the original 2-byte UTF-8 sequences to be come 3-bytes long.

The upstream report also includes a patch that is supposed to correct the issue by increasing the size of the buffer passed to fribidi_unicode_to_utf8().

Due to Fedora 11 and 12 containing fribidi 0.19.2, this would affect Fedora.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2676136&group_id=158366&atid=807545
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2010-10-01 20:03:48 UTC 
This has been assigned the name CVE-2010-3444.
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