CVE-2010-3444 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052935.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052936.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42868 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2676136&group_id=158366&atid=807545 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43592 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0058 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565997 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64619