CVE-2011-0020: Gnome Pango

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 18.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the pango_ft2_font_render_box_glyph function in pango/pangoft2-render.c in libpango in Pango 1.28.3 and earlier, when the FreeType2 backend is enabled, allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file, related to the glyph box for an FT_Bitmap object.

Affected products

• Gnome Pango: up to and including 1.28.3; version 1.28.0 only; version 1.28.1 only; version 1.28.2 only
• Pango Pango: version 0.20 only; version 0.21 only; version 0.22 only; version 0.23 only; version 0.24 only; version 0.25 only; …

Published 2011-01-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.