CVE-2016-6855

high

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.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html

https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4

https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3

https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5

https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-09-07

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02262