Executive Summary

Summary
Title Pango: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201811-07 First vendor Publication 2018-11-10
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-11-10
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Pango could result in a Denial of Service condition.

Background

Library for layout and rendering of internationalized text.

Description

Processing certain invalid Emoji sequences in a GTK+ application can trigger a reachable assertion resulting in an application crash.

Impact

A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted Emoji sequences, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Pango users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-libs/pango-1.42.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-15120 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15120

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

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

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201811-07.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-10-02 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_5a757a31f98e4bd48a85f1c0f3409769.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-83116f8692.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-11-10 05:17:15
  • First insertion