CVE-2016-6855
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 19%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDSep 7
1st PoCAug 23
exploitation probability
19%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
3 public exploit(s)
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 3
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References
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.htmlhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.htmlhttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616