CVE-2010-3444

HIGH 7.5CVE-2010-3444 · Published 11/01/2011 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-3444 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting gnu fribidi (fribidi), pyfribidi (kobi zamir).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.5%, higher than 91.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
gnu fribidi fribidi	`= 0.19.1= 0.19.2`	No fix yet
pyfribidi kobi_zamir	`= 0.10.1`	No fix yet

Description

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.

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