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…
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- mitre
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.
Public exploit
A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit or proof of concept: anyone can try it against an unpatched system.
- 40291 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 18.4% · top 2.8% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 40291 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 92616 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-0f8779baa6 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- USN-3069-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2242 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-5abbc35b6a (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200425 [SECURITY] [DLA 2185-1] eog security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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