Bug#663189: buffer overflow in python-pyfribidi

2012-03-10 Thread Ralf Schmitt
أحمد المحمودي writes: > > Why do you include a convenience copy of fribidi source code in your > pyfribidi distribution ? just so that I can tell people to "pip install pyfribidi" intead of telling them to install the frididi headers first. This can easily be disabled by setting USE_SYSTEM_

Bug#663189: buffer overflow in python-pyfribidi

2012-03-09 Thread Ralf Schmitt
Jakub Wilk writes: >>The reason is the following (see >>https://github.com/pediapress/pyfribidi/issues/2): >> >> fribidi_utf8_to_unicode consumes at most 3 bytes for a single >> unicode character, i.e. it does not handle unicode character above >> 0x. > > As far as I can see this is not true.