CVE-2016-6855

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    CVE-2016-6855

    Published: 7 Sept 2016Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html, https://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://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1, https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5, https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3, https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143, https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -285c2534f4c5117fb726179d3bdc49ca1aafb9b9

    Affected versions

    2.44.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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