1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-773-1

USN-773-1: Pango vulnerability

Publication date

7 May 2009

Overview

Pango vulnerability

Releases

Packages

Details

Will Drewry discovered that Pango incorrectly handled rendering text with
long glyphstrings. If a user were tricked into displaying specially crafted
data with applications linked against Pango, such as Firefox, an attacker
could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges
of the user invoking the program.

Will Drewry discovered that Pango incorrectly handled rendering text with
long glyphstrings. If a user were tricked into displaying specially crafted
data with applications linked against Pango, such as Firefox, an attacker
could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges
of the user invoking the program.

Update instructions

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
8.10 intrepid libpango1.0-0 –  1.22.2-0ubuntu1.1
8.04 hardy libpango1.0-0 –  1.20.5-0ubuntu1.1
6.06 dapper libpango1.0-0 –  1.12.3-0ubuntu3.1

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