Resource Exhaustion Affecting gedit-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-GEDITDEVEL-1977610
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Sept 2017

Introduced: 2 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14108  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 gedit-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gedit-devel package and not the gedit-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

libgedit.a in GNOME gedit through 3.22.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file that begins with many '\0' characters.