cve/2016/CVE-2016-6855.md

### [CVE-2016-6855](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6855)
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### 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://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138486/Gnome-Eye-Of-Gnome-3.10.2-Out-Of-Bounds-Write.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3069-1
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770143
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40291/

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon