CVE-2018-15120 Information

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 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3750-1/ https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8