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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69113
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2178-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pango1.0' package(s) announced via the DSA-2178-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pango1.0' package(s) announced via the DSA-2178-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that Pango did not check for memory allocation failures, causing a NULL pointer dereference with an adjustable offset. This can lead to application crashes and potentially arbitrary code execution.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.28.3-1+squeeze2.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your pango1.0 packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'pango1.0' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-0064
BugTraq ID: 46632
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46632
Debian Security Information: DSA-2178 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2178
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056065.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:040
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0309.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025145
http://secunia.com/advisories/43559
http://secunia.com/advisories/43572
http://secunia.com/advisories/43578
http://secunia.com/advisories/43800
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2011:005 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1082-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0543
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0555
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0558
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0584
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0683
XForce ISS Database: pango-hbbufferensure-bo(65770)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65770
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