CVE-2020-36427 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause a crash in gThumb by providing a malformed JPEG image, affecting users of this image viewer.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2020-36427?
CVE-2020-36427 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 19 Jul 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
GNOME gThumb before 3.10.1 allows an application crash via a malformed JPEG image.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36427?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gnome Gthumb.
How do I fix CVE-2020-36427?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2020-36427 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36427 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36427, GHSA-vx5q-6vmv-w8gj, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-36427.