CVE-2018-15120
Estado: ModificadaMedia (6.5)—
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.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 6.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 11%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 96
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (2)
CWE
- CWE-119
Referencias
- 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
- 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/
JSON original (NVD)
Mostrar
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