Eog: eye of gnome: buffer overrun when parsing malicious png files with non-standard iccp chunk
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cve-program · CVE-2026-118475
PublishedA flaw was found in Eye of GNOME. When parsing a specially crafted PNG image containing malformed color profile metadata, the application fails to validate chunk boundaries while searching for a null terminator. An attacker could trick a user into opening a malicious image, causing the application to read past the allocated buffer. This issue can lead to an application crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS), or potentially expose sensitive memory contents.
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cve-program · CVE-2026-118475
PublishedEog: eye of gnome: buffer overrun when parsing malicious png files with non-standard iccp chunk
A flaw was found in Eye of GNOME. When parsing a specially crafted PNG image containing malformed color profile metadata, the application fails to validate chunk boundaries while searching for a null terminator. An attacker could trick a user into opening a malicious image, causing the application to read past the allocated buffer. This issue can lead to an application crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS), or potentially expose sensitive memory contents.
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CVSS 3.1 · 3.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L