CVE-2019-1010238: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 19.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 29 only; version 30 only
• Gnome Pango: from 1.42.0, up to and including 1.44
• Oracle SD-WAN Edge: version 7.3 only; version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 7.4 only; version 7.6 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only; version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only; version 8.2 only; version 8.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 3.11 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2019-07-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.