Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-6311

Title: Gnome Gdk-Pixbuf Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-6311.

CWE Category CWE-476

Published Date Mar 10, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-6311: gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.c in gdk-pixbuf allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via vectors related to printing an error message.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://mov.sx/2017/02/21/bug-hunting-gdk-pixbuf.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/21/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/26/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96779 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778204 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SJF5ARFOX4BFUK6YCBKGAKBQYECO3AI2/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VSAZ6UCKKXC5VOWXGWQHOX2ZBLLATIOT/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-08 http://mov.sx/2017/02/21/bug-hunting-gdk-pixbuf.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/21/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/26/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96779 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778204 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SJF5ARFOX4BFUK6YCBKGAKBQYECO3AI2/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VSAZ6UCKKXC5VOWXGWQHOX2ZBLLATIOT/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-08

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns