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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-107651

A flaw was found in Eye of GNOME (eog). A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the PNG metadata reader due to improper state handling when parsing spl...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A flaw was found in Eye of GNOME (eog). A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the PNG metadata reader due to improper state handling when parsing split metadata chunks. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by enticing a user into opening a specially crafted PNG file, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or a Denial of Service (DoS) via application crash.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 eog

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Debian:13 eog

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Debian:14 eog

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References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org