CVE-2016-6855
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Out-of-bounds write
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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 & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)19%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.htmlAdvisory