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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Pango Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40504

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-07-14

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DESCRIPTION:
Oracle has acknowledged a vulnerability in Sun Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an array indexing error within the
Pango font rendering library when processing certain specially crafted
Glyph Definition (GDEF) tables. This can be exploited to crash an
application using the library by e.g. tricking a user into opening a
specially crafted font file.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch 120461-19 or 120460-19.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/cve_2010_0740_array_index

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