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.
Published: 2016-09-07
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 4.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-605-1 eog security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2185-1 eog security update
EUVD 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 Ubuntu USN USN-3069-1 Eye of GNOME vulnerability
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.03424}

epss

{'score': 0.0255}


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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Fedoraproject Fedora
Gnome Eye Of Gnome Glib
Opensuse Leap Opensuse
cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-09-07T18:59:05.703

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-6855

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2016-08-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-6855 - Bugzilla

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