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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2012-1176)

Fix for buffer overflow.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
434830	SCA: security update for pyfribidi (GHSA-6476-g47x-h3c7)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
434830	SCA: security update for pyfribidi (GHSA-6476-g47x-h3c7)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
58406	Fedora 15 : pyfribidi-0.11.0-1.fc15 (2012-3549)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
58405	Fedora 16 : pyfribidi-0.11.0-1.fc16 (2012-3537)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
58337	Fedora 17 : pyfribidi-0.11.0-1.fc17 (2012-3513)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-1176

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

medium

medium

medium