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Ubuntu: USN-3069-1 (CVE-2016-6855): Eye of GNOME vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3069-1 (CVE-2016-6855): Eye of GNOME vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/25/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/01/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-eog

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