CVE-2018-15120

MEDIUM

Pango <1.42.3 - DoS

Title source: llm

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC

by Jeffery M · bashdosmultiple

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (11)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm

[Release Notes, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f

[Third Party Advisory] https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/3750-1/

[Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263

[Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263/

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] 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/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0607

EPSS Percentile 90.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (2)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04

gnome/pango 1.40.8 - 1.42.3

Published Aug 24, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026