CVE-2010-3444
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.
- EPSS
- 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- fribidi:gnu_fribidi
- kobi_zamir:pyfribidi
References
- 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