CVE-2016-6855

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.

• CWE-787

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143Issue Tracking
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5Release Notes
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3Release Notes
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4Release Notes
• 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.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143Issue Tracking
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4Issue Tracking, Patch
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5Release Notes
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3Release Notes
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4Release Notes
• 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/

Published

Sep 7, 2016

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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