CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-6855.md

CVE-2016-6855

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.

POC

Reference

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon