MEDIUM 5.5 NVD

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 split metadat

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.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-107651
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2547986

Published: 2026-10-08 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-10-12

This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2026-10-08 via NVD.

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