CVE-2026-91786

medium

Description

A flaw was found in GNOME Shell. When processing icons from a remote search provider via D-Bus, the system fails to validate the icon's declared dimensions against the actual data buffer size. A malicious or compromised remote search provider could exploit this by providing oversized icon dimensions, leading to an out-of-bounds read. This can cause the GNOME Shell process to crash, disrupting the user's session, and potentially disclose sensitive information from adjacent memory.

References

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/9365

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2533606

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-91786

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium