Re: CVE request: pyfribidi buffer overflow flaw

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

On 03/14/2012 09:24 AM, Vincent Danen wrote:
> Could a CVE be assigned for this issue please?  I don't think it's come
> through here yet.
>
> A buffer overflow flaw was reported 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.
>
> References:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663189
> https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/issues/2
> https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/commit/d2860c655357975e7b32d84e6b45e98f0dcecd7a
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52451/info
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801896

Please use CVE-2012-1176 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)