{
    "id": "CVE-2016-6855",
    "published": "2016-09-07 18:59:05",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 00:51:53",
    "cvss_score": "7.5",
    "cvss_severity": "HIGH",
    "cvss_version": "3.0",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-787",
    "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.18862",
    "epss_percentile": "0.97207",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-30 18:17:16",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "canonical",
            "product": "ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "fedoraproject",
            "product": "fedora"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "gnome",
            "product": "eye_of_gnome"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "gnome",
            "product": "glib"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "opensuse",
            "product": "leap"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "opensuse",
            "product": "opensuse"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "40291",
            "title": "Eye of Gnome 3.10.2 - GMarkup Out of Bounds Write",
            "date": "2016-08-23",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html",
        "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616",
        "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1",
        "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143",
        "https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4",
        "https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5",
        "https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3",
        "https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/",
        "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00021.html",
        "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92616",
        "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1",
        "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143",
        "https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/commit/?id=e99a8c00f959652fe7c10e2fa5a3a7a5c25e6af4",
        "https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.16.5",
        "https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.18.3",
        "https://git.gnome.org/browse/eog/plain/NEWS?h=3.20.4",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00018.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JVINHHR6VJKXTYYMAYKN5GROKHVT4UKB/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T6GFDHLNPUG7JHWM3QLXQNRA7NZGU2KI/"
    ]
}