Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 8, 2026

CVE-2026-107651

Description

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.

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Affected products

GNOME Foundation/Eye Of Gnomellm-fuzzy

Patches

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References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-107651nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd

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