CVE-2016-6855 Information

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

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143 https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4 https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5 https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3 https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/ https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5