Synopsis

Important: pango security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for pango is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for the GTK+ widget toolkit.

Security Fix(es):

• pango: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels() heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2019-1010238)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1737785 - CVE-2019-1010238 pango: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels() heap-based buffer overflow

CVEs

• CVE-2019-1010238

References