CVE-2016-6855

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6855
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6855.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6855
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-09-07T18:59:05.703Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:10:32.009647Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/gnome/glib

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gnome/glib
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
285c2534f4c5117fb726179d3bdc49ca1aafb9b9
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.44.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.20.0
2.20.1
2.21.1
2.21.2
2.21.3
2.21.4
2.21.5
2.21.6
2.22.0
2.22.2
2.23.0
2.23.1
2.23.2
2.23.3
2.23.4
2.23.5
2.23.6
2.24.0
2.25.0
2.25.10
2.25.11
2.25.12
2.25.13
2.25.14
2.25.15
2.25.2
2.25.3
2.25.4
2.25.5
2.25.6
2.25.8
2.25.9
2.27.0
2.27.1
2.27.2
2.27.3
2.27.5
2.27.90
2.27.91
2.27.92
2.27.93
2.28.0
2.29.10
2.29.12
2.29.14
2.29.16
2.29.18
2.29.2
2.29.4
2.29.6
2.29.8
2.29.90
2.31.0
2.31.10
2.31.12
2.31.14
2.31.16
2.31.18
2.31.2
2.31.20
2.31.22
2.31.4
2.31.6
2.31.8
2.32.0
2.32.1
2.33.1
2.33.10
2.33.12
2.33.14
2.33.2
2.33.3
2.33.4
2.33.6
2.33.8
2.34.0
2.35.1
2.35.2
2.35.3
2.35.4
2.35.6
2.35.7
2.35.8
2.35.9
2.36.0
2.37.0
2.37.1
2.37.2
2.37.3
2.37.4
2.37.5
2.37.6
2.37.7
2.37.92
2.37.93
2.38.0
2.39.0
2.39.1
2.39.2
2.39.3
2.39.4
2.39.90
2.39.91
2.39.92
2.41.1
2.41.2
2.41.3
2.41.4
2.41.5
2.42.0
2.43.0
2.43.1
2.43.2
2.43.3
2.43.4
2.43.90
2.43.91
2.43.92
2.44.0
Other
FOR_GNOME_0_99_1
GLIB_1_1_0
GLIB_1_1_1
GLIB_1_1_10
GLIB_1_1_11
GLIB_1_1_12
GLIB_1_1_13
GLIB_1_1_14
GLIB_1_1_15
GLIB_1_1_16
GLIB_1_1_2
GLIB_1_1_3
GLIB_1_1_3a
GLIB_1_1_4
GLIB_1_1_5
GLIB_1_1_6
GLIB_1_1_7
GLIB_1_1_8
GLIB_1_1_8a
GLIB_1_1_9
GLIB_1_2_0
GLIB_1_2_9PRE1
GLIB_1_3_0
GLIB_1_3_1
GLIB_1_3_10
GLIB_1_3_11
GLIB_1_3_12
GLIB_1_3_13
GLIB_1_3_14
GLIB_1_3_15
GLIB_1_3_2
GLIB_1_3_3
GLIB_1_3_4
GLIB_1_3_5
GLIB_1_3_6
GLIB_1_3_7
GLIB_1_3_8
GLIB_1_3_9
GLIB_2_0_0
GLIB_2_0_0_RC1
GLIB_2_0_1
GLIB_2_10_0
GLIB_2_10_1
GLIB_2_11_0
GLIB_2_11_1
GLIB_2_11_2
GLIB_2_11_3
GLIB_2_11_4
GLIB_2_12_0
GLIB_2_12_1
GLIB_2_12_2
GLIB_2_13_0
GLIB_2_13_1
GLIB_2_13_2
GLIB_2_13_3
GLIB_2_13_5
GLIB_2_13_6
GLIB_2_13_7
GLIB_2_14_0
GLIB_2_14_1
GLIB_2_14_2
GLIB_2_14_3
GLIB_2_15_1
GLIB_2_15_2
GLIB_2_15_3
GLIB_2_15_4
GLIB_2_15_5
GLIB_2_15_6
GLIB_2_16_1
GLIB_2_17_0
GLIB_2_17_1
GLIB_2_17_2
GLIB_2_17_3
GLIB_2_17_4
GLIB_2_17_5
GLIB_2_17_6
GLIB_2_17_7
GLIB_2_18_0
GLIB_2_18_1
GLIB_2_19_0
GLIB_2_19_1
GLIB_2_19_10
GLIB_2_19_2
GLIB_2_19_3
GLIB_2_19_4
GLIB_2_19_5
GLIB_2_19_6
GLIB_2_19_7
GLIB_2_19_8
GLIB_2_19_9
GLIB_2_1_3
GLIB_2_1_4
GLIB_2_1_5
GLIB_2_20_0
GLIB_2_2_0
GLIB_2_3_0
GLIB_2_3_1
GLIB_2_3_2
GLIB_2_3_3
GLIB_2_3_5
GLIB_2_3_6
GLIB_2_4_0
GLIB_2_4_1
GLIB_2_5_0
GLIB_2_5_1
GLIB_2_5_2
GLIB_2_5_3
GLIB_2_5_5
GLIB_2_5_6
GLIB_2_6_0
GLIB_2_6_1
GLIB_2_7_0
GLIB_2_7_1
GLIB_2_7_2
GLIB_2_7_3
GLIB_2_7_4
GLIB_2_7_5
GLIB_2_7_6
GLIB_2_7_7
GLIB_2_8_0
GLIB_2_8_1
GLIB_2_9_0
GLIB_2_9_1
GLIB_2_9_2
GLIB_2_9_3
GLIB_2_9_4
GLIB_2_9_5
GLIB_2_9_6
GLIB_GNOME_0_99_1
GLIB_VERSION_1_1_3
GNOME_PRINT_0_24
GOBJECT_GType_guint
GTK_2_5_4
GTK_2_7_4
GTK_ALL_1_3_6
PRE_CLEANUP
R_2_0_core
glib-2-0-branchpoint
glib-2-10-branchpoint
glib-2-12-branchpoint
glib-2-2-branchpoint
glib-2-4-branchpoint
glib-2-6-branchpoint
gobject_0_10_0
gobject_0_9_0
start
glib-2.*
glib-2.25.7

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
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            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "23"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "24"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "42.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "13.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.16.5"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.17.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.17.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.17.3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.17.90"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.17.91"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.17.92"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.18.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.18.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.18.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.19.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.19.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.19.3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.19.4"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.19.90"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.19.91"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.19.92"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.20.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.20.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.20.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "3.20.3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.18.x"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.18.3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.20.x"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.20.4"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6855.json"