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pyfribidi: buffer overflow when processing Arabic UTF-8 strings

Published Jan 11, 2011

Description

Buffer overflow in the log2vis_utf8 function in pyfribidi.c in GNU FriBidi 0.19.1, 0.19.2, and possibly other versions, as used in PyFriBidi 0.10.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Arabic UTF-8 string that causes original 2-byte UTF-8 sequences to be transformed into 3-byte sequences.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Jan 11, 2011
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Sep 17, 2010
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Mar 9, 2009