vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-15120: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 24, 2018
Added
Nov 9, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

libpango in Pango 1.40.8 through 1.42.3, as used in hexchat and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted text with invalid Unicode sequences.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-pango
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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