Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is: The heap based buffer overflow can be used to get code execution. The component is: function name: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels, assignment of nchars and the loop condition. The attack vector is: Bug can be used when application pass invalid utf-8 strings to functions like pango_itemize.
CVE-2019-1010238
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 51EG Risk 51/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity98% × 45%Exploitation6% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 6.3%
- EPSS %ILE
- 93rd
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact total (CVSS ≥ 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
July 19, 2019
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Sep 28, 2026Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 4496-1] pango1.0 security update
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/14[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: pango-1.42.4-3.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VFFF4FY7SCAYT3EKTYPGRN6BVKZTH7Y7/[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: pango-1.43.0-4.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora mailing-lists
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/D6HWAHXJ2ZXINYMANHPFDDCJFWUQ57M4/pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels with incomplete unicode sequences may write out of bounds (#342) · Issues · GNOME / pango · GitLab
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/342Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3234Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2582Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2571Vendor Advisories for CVE-2019-1010238(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(4)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libpango1.0-0 (1.42.4-6ubuntu0.1) @ disco | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| redhat | pango-0:1.42.4-3.el7_6 | 2019-10-29 | redhat |
| redhat | pango-0:1.42.4-5.el8_0 | 2019-08-29 | redhat |
| redhat | pango-0:1.42.4-4.el7_7 | 2019-08-28 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(21 across 21 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.42.4-r2 | — |
Alpine:v3.11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.12(1)
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|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.15(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.16(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.17(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.18(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.19(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.20(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.21(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.22(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.23(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.24(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.44.1-r0 | — |
Alpine:v3.9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango | — | 1.42.4-r1 | — |
Debian:10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango1.0 | 1.42.4-6 | 1.42.4-7~deb10u1 | — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango1.0 | — | 1.42.4-7 | — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango1.0 | — | 1.42.4-7 | — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango1.0 | — | 1.42.4-7 | — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| pango1.0 | — | 1.42.4-7 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(4)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
Data Freshness Timeline
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