High severity · published Sep 7, 2016
CVE-2016-6855
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…
7.5
CVSS
18.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)18.4% · higher than 97% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EO
Eye OF Gnome · Gnome
3.16.5; 3.17.1; 3.17.2; 3.17.3; 3.17.90; 3.17.91; +15 more · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
23; 24 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
42.1 · source: NVD
OP
Opensuse · Opensuse
13.2 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
12.04; 14.04; 16.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6855
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6855
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html
Exploit
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143
Issue Tracking
https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4
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