Resource Exhaustion Affecting gedit package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GEDIT-520445
  • published5 Sept 2017
  • disclosed5 Sept 2017

Introduced: 5 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 Debian:11 gedit.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gedit package and not the gedit package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 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.