vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-5a757a31-f98e-4bd4-8a85-f1c0f3409769 (CVE-2018-15120): pango -- remote DoS vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 1, 2018
Added
Oct 2, 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

freebsd-upgrade-package-pango
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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