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CVE-2016-6855

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Date: September 7, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (18)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6855

Url: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3

Url: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6855

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6855

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-6855

Url: https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4

Url: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-6855

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 3.18.3,3.20.4,2.44.1

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CVSS v3

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):
Attack Complexity (AC):
Privileges Required (PR):
User Interaction (UI):
Scope (S):
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.1
Access Vector (AV):
Access Complexity (AC):
Authentication (AU):
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2016-6855

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Date: September 7, 2016

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (18)

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

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CVSS v3

CVSS v2

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