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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 service (out-of-bounds write and crash) via vectors involving passing invalid UTF-8 to GMarkup.

Published

2016-09-07T18:59:05.703

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-787

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	23	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	24	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	leap	42.1	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	13.2	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	16.04	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.16.5	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.17.1	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.17.2	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.17.3	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.17.90	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.17.91	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.17.92	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.18.0	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.18.1	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.18.2	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.19.1	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.19.2	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.19.3	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.19.4	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.19.90	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.19.91	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.19.92	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.20.0	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.20.1	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.20.2	Yes
Application	gnome	eye_of_gnome	3.20.3	Yes
Application	gnome	glib	2.44.0	No

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143 Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4 Issue Tracking, Patch ([email protected])
https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5 Release Notes ([email protected])
https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3 Release Notes ([email protected])
https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4 Release Notes ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/ ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/ ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/ ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143 Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4 Issue Tracking, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5 Release Notes (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3 Release Notes (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4 Release Notes (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)