Bug 1369087 – CVE-2016-6855 eog: Out-of-bounds write when passing invalid UTF-8 to GMarkup

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Bug 1369087 - (CVE-2016-6855) CVE-2016-6855 eog: Out-of-bounds write when passing invalid UTF-8 to GMarkup

Summary:	CVE-2016-6855 eog: Out-of-bounds write when passing invalid UTF-8 to GMarkup

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2016-6855

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1369088
Blocks:	1369089
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Reported:	2016-08-22 09:10 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2016-08-24 12:22 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-08-24 05:24:02 EDT
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upstream patch (1.63 KB, application/mbox) 2016-08-24 02:12 EDT, Dhiru Kholia	no flags	Details
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-08-22 09:10:31 EDT

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in eog was found when processing specially crafted SVG file. Due to passing the error message containing invalid UTF-8 character to GMarkup, out-of-bounds access is triggered.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143

Upstream patch:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-08-22 09:12:06 EDT

Created eog tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1369088]

Comment 2 Dhiru Kholia 2016-08-24 02:12 EDT

Created attachment 1193475 [details]
upstream patch

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-08-24 09:50:08 EDT

eog-3.20.4-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-08-24 12:22:48 EDT

eog-3.18.3-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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