Vulnerability CVE-2017-14108
Published: 2017-09-05

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
libgedit.a mishandling NUL Blocks in gedit(GNOME text editor)
Hosein Askari
02.09.2017

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.1/10
6.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Gnome -> Gedit 

 References:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791037
https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017090008
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143983/libgedit.a-3.22.1-Denial-Of-Service.html
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