CVE-2018-15120

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-15120
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-08-24T19:29:01
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-07-14T15:41:47
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:pango:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.40.8 1.42.3
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.html Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS Release Notes 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07 Third Party Advisory
http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg Third Party Advisory
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
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15120
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-15120
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 07:07:18 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 11:26:52 2018-08-24T19:29Z 2018-08-24T19:29:01 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 11:26:52 2021-07-14T15:41:47 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 11:26:52 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated