Scientific Linux: Moderate Buffer Overflow Advisory for evolution28-pango

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:28:50 -0500
Reply-To: Pat Riehecky 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Organization: Fermilab
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: evolution28-pango on SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: evolution28-pango security update
Issue Date: 2011-09-21
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-3193

Pango is a library used for the layout and rendering of internationalized
text.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in HarfBuzz, an OpenType text shaping
engine used in Pango. If a user loaded a specially-crafted font file with
an application that uses Pango, it could cause the application to crash or,
possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
the application. (CVE-2011-3193)

Users of evolution28-pango are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After
installing this update, you must restart your system or restart the X
server for the update to take effect.

SL4:
 i386
 evolution28-pango-1.14.9-13.el4_11.i386.rpm
 evolution28-pango-debuginfo-1.14.9-13.el4_11.i386.rpm
 evolution28-pango-devel-1.14.9-13.el4_11.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 evolution28-pango-1.14.9-13.el4_11.x86_64.rpm
 evolution28-pango-debuginfo-1.14.9-13.el4_11.x86_64.rpm
 evolution28-pango-devel-1.14.9-13.el4_11.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team