VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2016-6855
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability18.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-09-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking
- cve@mitre.org — Issue Tracking, Patch
- cve@mitre.org — Release Notes
- cve@mitre.org — Release Notes
- cve@mitre.org — Release Notes
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org