CVE-2016-6855
Publication date 23 August 2016
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
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.
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
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eog | 16.04 LTS xenial |
Fixed 3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1
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14.04 LTS trusty |
Fixed 3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2
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Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
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Base score |
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Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | High |
Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References
Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)
- USN-3069-1
- Eye of GNOME vulnerability
- 25 August 2016