Pango: Denial of service A vulnerability in Pango could result in a Denial of Service condition. pango 2018-11-10 2018-11-10 664108 remote 1.42.4 1.42.4

Library for layout and rendering of internationalized text.

Processing certain invalid Emoji sequences in a GTK+ application can trigger a reachable assertion resulting in an application crash.

A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted Emoji sequences, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Pango users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-libs/pango-1.42.4"
CVE-2018-15120 whissi whissi