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Ubuntu: USN-3069-1 (CVE-2016-6855): Eye of GNOME vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 25, 2016
Added
Jul 1, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-eog
Title
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