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CVE-2018-15120

Published: 24 August 2018

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
pango1.0
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (1.42.4-1)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
bionic
Released (1.40.14-1ubuntu0.1)
Patches:
other: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H