CVE-2018-15120 (GCVE-0-2018-15120)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-24 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:46
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-08-20 00:00
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