[Bug 239563] x11-toolkits/pango vulnerable

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239563

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Author: joneum
Date: Thu Jul 23 18:34:50 UTC 2020
New revision: 542951
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/542951

Log:
  SECURITY UPDATE: Buffer overflow

  Gnome Pango 1.42 and later is affected by: Buffer Overflow. The impact is:
The heap based buffer overflow can be used to get code execution. The component
is: function name: pango_log2vis_get_embedding_levels, assignment of nchars and
the loop condition. The attack vector is: Bug can be used when application pass
invalid utf-8 strings to functions like pango_itemize.

  PR:           239563
  Reported by:  Miyashita Touka <imagin8r at protonmail.com>
  Approved by:  gnome (maintainer timeout)
  MFH:          2020Q3
  Security:     456375e1-cd09-11ea-9172-4c72b94353b5
  Sponsored by: Netzkommune GmbH

Changes:
  head/x11-toolkits/pango/Makefile
  head/x11-toolkits/pango/files/CVE-20191010238

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