CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-6855

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Eye of GNOME (eog) versions 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 via invalid UTF-8 passed to GMarkup.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to crash the application, potentially leading to service availability interruptions.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Eye of GNOME to version 3.18.3 or later and glib to version 2.44.1 or later to mitigate the risk.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS