Published: 05/09/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 632

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

libgedit.a in GNOME gedit up to and including 3.22.1 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file that begins with many '\0' characters.

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Debian Bug report logs - #875311 gedit: CVE-2017-14108: CPU consumption via crafted file Package: src:gedit; Maintainer for src:gedit is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 15:27:01 UTC Severity: normal ...

libgedita in GNOME gedit through 3221 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file that begins with many '\0' characters ...

libgedita versions 3221 and below suffer from a denial of service vulnerability ...

CWE-400 https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143983/libgedit.a-3.22.1-Denial-Of-Service.html https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017090008 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791037 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=875311 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-14108

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