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 unspecified other impact via crafted text with invalid Unicode sequences.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-08-24

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Pango (Gnome)

References

• http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm
• https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS
• https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f
• https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg
• https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3750-1/
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263/
• https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/16/ps4s-are-reportedly-being-bricked-and-sony-is-working-on-a-fix
• https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/9o5efg/message_bricking_console_megathread/