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TITLE:
Pango Glyph String Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35021

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35021/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Pango, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially
compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error when
rendering text with long glyph strings and may be exploited to cause
a heap-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.24 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Will Drewry, oCERT Team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-001.html

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