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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-15120: Pango: Denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 24, 2018
Added
Nov 12, 2018
Modified
Mar 31, 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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-pango
Title
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