glsa-201811-07.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201811-07">
  <title>Pango: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Pango could result in a Denial of Service
    condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pango</product>
  <announced>2018-11-10</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-11-10</revised>
  <bug>664108</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="x11-libs/pango" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.42.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.42.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Library for layout and rendering of internationalized text.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Processing certain invalid Emoji sequences in a GTK+ application can
      trigger a reachable assertion resulting in an application crash.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted Emoji sequences,
      possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Pango users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=x11-libs/pango-1.42.4"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15120">CVE-2018-15120</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-08-30T12:31:14Z">whissi</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-11-10T00:11:22Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>