CVE-2017-14108

Summary

CVECVE-2017-14108
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-09-05 06:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
Descriptionlibgedit.a in GNOME gedit through 3.22.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file that begins with many '\0' characters.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Gedit All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
libgedit.a mishandling NUL Blocks in gedit(GNOME text editor) - CXSecurity.com MISC cxsecurity.com Third Party Advisory
libgedit.a 3.22.1 Denial Of Service ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Bug 791037 – libgedit.a in GNOME gedit through 3.22.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file that begins with many '\0' characters. MISC bugzilla.gnome.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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