MediumFix available
pango — security advisory
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.
- Products
- pango
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.40.14-r1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-15120
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 21:58 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2018-15120
pango
Fixed versions: 1.40.14-r1
pango
Fixed versions: 1.40.14-r1
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2018-15120",
"method": "structured",
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:17:55.218909822Z",
"provider": "osv",
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 415055,
"published_at": "2018-08-24T19:29:01.657+00:00"
}