CVE-2010-3444
Buffer overflow in the log2vis_utf8 function in pyfribidi.c in GNU FriBidi 0.19.1, 0.19.2, and possibly other versions, as used in PyFriBidi 0.10.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Arabic UTF-8 string that causes original 2-byte UTF-8 sequences to be transformed into 3-byte sequences.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 4.5% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-3442)
- Published
- January 11, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-3442 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fribidi / gnu fribidi
- fribidi / gnu fribidi
- kobi zamir / pyfribidi
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052935.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052936.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42868(Vendor Advisory)
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2676136&group_id=158366&atid=807545(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43592
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0058(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565997
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64619
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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