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
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-6855
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1369088
Blocks: 1369089
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-08-22 13:10 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-08-24 09:24:02 UTC
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upstream patch (1.63 KB, application/mbox)
2016-08-24 06:12 UTC, Dhiru Kholia 		no flags Details
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-08-22 13:10:31 UTC 
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 13:12:06 UTC 
Created eog tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1369088]
Comment 2 Dhiru Kholia 2016-08-24 06:12:41 UTC 
Created attachment 1193475 [details]
upstream patch
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-08-24 13:50:08 UTC 
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 16:22:48 UTC 
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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