| Summary: | app-editors/gedit: GNOME gedit through 3.22.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | D'juan McDonald (domhnall) <flopwiki> |
| Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
| Status: | RESOLVED OBSOLETE | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | gnome |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783844 | ||
| Whiteboard: | B3 [upstream cve] | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Update: @maintainer(s), see $URL for details. @security, according to: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit/ReportingBugs this type of bug is expected behavior. |
From ${UR}: 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. CVE Details:(https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2017-14108) @maintainer(s), issue seems unknown to upstream at this time. Daj Uan (jmbailey/mbailey_j) Gentoo Security Padawan