CVE-2018-15120

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.

References

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/9o5efg/message_bricking_console_megathread/

https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/10/16/ps4s-are-reportedly-being-bricked-and-sony-is-working-on-a-fix

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

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

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3750-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-07

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2018-August/msg00001.html

https://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg

https://github.com/GNOME/pango/commit/71aaeaf020340412b8d012fe23a556c0420eda5f

https://github.com/GNOME/pango/blob/1.42.4/NEWS

http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3