PT-2017-13255 · Gnome+2 · Gnome Gedit+2

Hosein Askari · Published 2017-09-05 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-14108

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNOME gedit versions prior to 3.22.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by providing a file that starts with many '0' characters.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.22.1, update to version 3.22.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-1450

CVE-2017-14108

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Gnome Gedit

References · 10

• 🔥 https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143983/libgedit.a-3.22.1-Denial-Of-Service.html · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14108 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-14108 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14108 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14108 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14108 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14108 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14108 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017090008 · Note
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791037 · Note