CVE-2012-1176
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the fribidi_utf8_to_unicode function in PyFriBidi before 0.11.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a 4-byte utf-8 sequence.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 2.7% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0027)
- Published
- August 26, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0027 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fribidi / pyfribidi
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663189
- http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/aacd036037217998/8d095f85f3665bff?lnk=raot
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075293.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076038.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076053.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52451
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=801896
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35055
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74001
- https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/commit/d2860c655357975e7b32d84e6b45e98f0dcecd7a
- https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/issues/2%29:
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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