VulnerabilityModified
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.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 11.5%
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 11.5%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 11.50% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- gnome/pango · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webmExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWSRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5fPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpgThird Party Advisory
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3750-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263Exploit, 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-fixExploit, 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.webmExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWSRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5fPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpgThird Party Advisory
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3750-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263Exploit, 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-fixExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/9o5efg/message_bricking_console_megathread/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.