oss-security - Re: CVE request: libqt4: two memory issues

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:18:47 +0200
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: libqt4: two memory issues

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:49:17 -0400 (EDT) Josh Bressers wrote:

> > A) buffer overflow (looks only like an off-by-one from a very quick
> > look)
> > http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/9ae6f2f9a57f0c3096d5785913e437953fa6775c
> 
> Use CVE-2011-3193 for this.
> 
> I couldn't find this code in Harfbuzz-ng or pango. Has someone looked
> into this further?

In both harfbuzz and pango git, history of the file ends with "Remove
old code!" removal:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/log/pango/opentype/harfbuzz-gpos.c
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/log/src/harfbuzz-gpos.c

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