Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gedit  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GEDIT-288223
  • 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)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gedit package and not the gedit package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.