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.
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Remediation
No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.
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Tracking
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Debian DLA |
DLA-605-1 | eog security update |
Debian DLA |
DLA-2185-1 | eog security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2016-7740 | 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-3069-1 | Eye of GNOME vulnerability |
References
History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T01:43:38.473Z
Reserved: 2016-08-18T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2016-6855
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Status : Modified
Published: 2016-09-07T18:59:05.703
Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220
Link: CVE-2016-6855
OpenCVE Enrichment
No data.
Weaknesses
Debian DLA
EUVD
Ubuntu USN