CVE-2018-15120 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libpango versions 1.40.8 through 1.42.3, affecting products like HexChat and various Canonical and GNOME distributions. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger an application crash or other unspecified impacts by sending crafted text containing invalid Unicode sequences. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and can lead to high availability impact (A:H). While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.40.8, <= 1.42.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gnome:pango:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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