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…
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 18.4%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 18.38% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 23 August 2016
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Affected
- fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/leap · opensuse/opensuse · canonical/ubuntu linux · gnome/eye of gnome
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 16.4% on 21 September 2026 to 18.4% on 27 October 2026, peaking at 18.9% on 22 September 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- 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/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.