CVE-2012-1176
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Buffer overflow in the fribidi_utf8_to_unicode function in PyFriBidi before 0.11.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a 4-byte utf-8 sequence.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0.11.0-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0.11.0-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0.11.0-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0.11.0-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0.11.0-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| fribidi | pyfribidi | {"endIncluding":"0.10.9"} | |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1176
- https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/issues/2
- https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/issues/2%29:
- https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/commit/d2860c655357975e7b32d84e6b45e98f0dcecd7a
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801896
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35055
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74001
- https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyfribidi/PYSEC-2012-11.yaml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228170815/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52451
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663189
- http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/aacd036037217998/8d095f85f3665bff?lnk=raot
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075293.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076038.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076053.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52451
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1176
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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