CVE-2016-6855 (GCVE-0-2016-6855)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-07 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:43
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
13 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/ | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB |
| https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
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