CVE-2018-15120

Name
CVE-2018-15120
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

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

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:pango:pango:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* pango >= 1.40.8 <= 1.42.3

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status