CVE-2016-6855

Publication date 23 August 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
eog 16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 3.4.2-0ubuntu1.3

Patch details

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Package Patch details
eog

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
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

Other references