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CVE-2018-15120

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 11.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04
• Gnome Pango: from 1.40.8 through 1.42.3

References

• 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://i.redd.it/v7p4n2ptu0s11.jpg
• 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
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45263/
• 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/
• http://52.117.224.77/xfce4-pdos.webm

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