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Status published
Medium
CVE-2018-15120
libpango in Pango 1.40.8 through 1.42.3, as used in hexchat...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263/
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3750-1/
- https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.html
- http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm
- 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/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263
- https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg
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Affected Vendor
gnome
View all reports →Affected Software
pango, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
1.40.8, 18.04
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 24th, 2018
Last Modified:
August 5th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.