# CVE-2026-118475: Eog: eye of gnome: buffer overrun when parsing malicious png files with non-standard iccp chunk

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-113476, GHSA-V5XR-7MRG-CXWJ
- Severity: CVSS 3.6 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-30 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Summary

Eye of GNOME, the default image viewer for the GNOME desktop, is affected. A specially crafted PNG image can cause it to read past the end of a memory buffer, which may crash the application or expose sensitive data from memory.

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## Affected

- eog: version range not reported
- eog: version range not reported
- eog: version range not reported
- eog: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in Eye of GNOME. When parsing a specially crafted PNG image containing malformed color profile metadata, the application fails to validate chunk boundaries while searching for a null terminator. An attacker could trick a user into opening a malicious image, causing the application to read past the allocated buffer. This issue can lead to an application crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS), or potentially expose sensitive memory contents.

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-118475
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2562716
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog/-/commit/04e4f313421eacb9fc529781542bb7fb81a3cd1a

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