Bug 801896 (CVE-2012-1176) - CVE-2012-1176 pyfribidi: buffer overflow when handling 4-byte utf-8 sequences
Summary: CVE-2012-1176 pyfribidi: buffer overflow when handling 4-byte utf-8 sequences
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-1176
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 801897
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-09 19:06 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-08-22 15:09:03 UTC
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Description Vincent Danen 2012-03-09 19:06:06 UTC 
A buffer overflow flaw was reported [1].[2] in pyfribidi's fribidi_utf8_to_unicode() function, due to it handling at most 3 bytes for a single unicode character.  If a 4-byte utf-8 sequence was supplied, it would generate 2 unicode characters which would overflow the logical buffer.  This has been fixed in pyfribidi 0.11 [3].

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663189
[2] https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/issues/2
[3] https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/commit/d2860c655357975e7b32d84e6b45e98f0dcecd7a
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-03-09 19:06:46 UTC 
Created pyfribidi tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 801897]
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2012-03-14 18:12:19 UTC 
This was assigned the name CVE-2012-1176:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/9
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