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GLSA-201811-07 : Pango: Denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124213

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201811-07 (Pango: Denial of service)

 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.

Solution

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

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124213

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201811-07.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 4/22/2019

Updated: 5/27/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15120

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pango, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15120

GLSA: 201811-07