UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6855

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6855
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6855.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6855
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Published
2016-08-23T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:34:57.886558Z
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
  • Ubuntu - medium
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

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / eog

Package

Name
eog
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/eog@3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2

Affected versions

3.*

3.8.2-1ubuntu1
3.10.1-1ubuntu1
3.10.2-0ubuntu1
3.10.2-0ubuntu2
3.10.2-0ubuntu3
3.10.2-0ubuntu4
3.10.2-0ubuntu5
3.10.2-0ubuntu5.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "eog",
            "binary_version": "3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "eog-dbg",
            "binary_version": "3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "eog-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "eog-dev",
            "binary_version": "3.10.2-0ubuntu5.2"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / eog

Package

Name
eog
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/eog@3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1

Affected versions

3.*

3.16.3-1ubuntu2
3.18.0-0ubuntu1
3.18.0-1ubuntu1
3.18.0-1ubuntu2
3.18.1-1ubuntu1
3.18.1-1ubuntu2
3.18.2-1
3.18.2-1ubuntu1
3.18.2-1ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "eog",
            "binary_version": "3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "eog-dbg",
            "binary_version": "3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "eog-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "eog-dev",
            "binary_version": "3.18.2-1ubuntu2.1"
        }
    ]
}