CVE-2018-15120 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-15120?

CVE-2018-15120 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 24 Aug 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-15120?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Gnome Pango.

How do I fix CVE-2018-15120?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-15120 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-15120 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2018-15120, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15120, GHSA-6gmw-hfp8-7f52, SUSE-SU-2018:2763-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15120, USN-3750-1 and 2 more.