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High
CVE-2016-6855
Eye of GNOME (aka eog) 3.16.5, 3.17.x, 3.18.x before 3.18.3,...
Vulnerability Description
Eye of GNOME (aka eog) 3.16.5, 3.17.x, 3.18.x before 3.18.3, 3.19.x, and 3.20.x before 3.20.4, when used with glib before 2.44.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and crash) via vectors involving passing invalid UTF-8 to GMarkup.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html
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Vulnerable Versions:
23, 24, 42.1, 13.2, 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 3.16.5, 3.17.1, 3.17.2, 3.17.3, 3.17.90, 3.17.91, 3.17.92, 3.18.0, 3.18.1, 3.18.2, 3.19.1, 3.19.2, 3.19.3, 3.19.4, 3.19.90, 3.19.91, 3.19.92, 3.20.0, 3.20.1, 3.20.2, 3.20.3
Timeline
Official Publish:
September 7th, 2016
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.