CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-15120
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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.
Affected configurations
• gnome pango (>= 1.40.8 <= 1.42.3)
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg Third Party Advisory
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3750-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/16/ps4s-are-reportedly-being-bricked-and-sony-is-working-on-a-fix Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/9o5efg/message_bricking_console_megathread/ Third Party Advisory
- http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg Third Party Advisory
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3750-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/16/ps4s-are-reportedly-being-bricked-and-sony-is-working-on-a-fix Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/9o5efg/message_bricking_console_megathread/ Third Party Advisory