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CVE-2016-6855

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 18.86% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-09-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

External Security References
packetstormsecurity.com ↗ exploit-db.com ↗

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CVE
CVE-2016-6855
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
18.86%

Original NVD 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.