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Out-of-bounds Write Affecting eog package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
2.26% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-EOG-1352926
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed19 Aug 2016
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Introduced: 19 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-6855  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 eog.

NVD Description

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

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.

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