CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6855
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
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.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• fedoraproject fedora 24
• opensuse leap 42.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• gnome eye of gnome 3.16.5
• gnome eye of gnome 3.17.1
• gnome eye of gnome 3.17.2
• gnome eye of gnome 3.17.3
• gnome eye of gnome 3.17.90
• gnome eye of gnome 3.17.91
• gnome eye of gnome 3.17.92
• gnome eye of gnome 3.18.0
• gnome eye of gnome 3.18.1
• gnome eye of gnome 3.18.2
• gnome eye of gnome 3.19.1
• gnome eye of gnome 3.19.2
• gnome eye of gnome 3.19.3
• gnome eye of gnome 3.19.4
• gnome eye of gnome 3.19.90
• gnome eye of gnome 3.19.91
• gnome eye of gnome 3.19.92
• gnome eye of gnome 3.20.0
• gnome eye of gnome 3.20.1
• gnome eye of gnome 3.20.2
• gnome eye of gnome 3.20.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143 Issue Tracking
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5 Release Notes
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3 Release Notes
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4 Release Notes
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/ www.exploit-db.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143 Issue Tracking
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5 Release Notes
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3 Release Notes
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4 Release Notes
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/ www.exploit-db.com