SB2018082802 - Denial of service in Pango
Published: August 28, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018082802
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Assertion failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15120)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input processed by the pango/pango-emoji.c source code file. A remote attacker can type a series of invalid Unicode characters in the affected application, trigger an assertion failure and cause the application to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.