Medium severity · published Aug 24, 2018
CVE-2018-15120
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…
6.5
CVSS
11.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)11.5% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PA
Pango · Gnome
1.40.8 through 1.42.3 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
18.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15120
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15120
Exploit
http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm
Release Notes
https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS
Patch
https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f
Third Party Advisory
https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg
Patch
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07
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