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SZB-2bea0cd681

EUVD-2026-113476 flaw reported in Eye of GNOME image viewer (CVSS 3.6)

Status
Unverified: only social posts report this so far
Kind
Vulnerability
Vendor
GNOME
Product
Eye of GNOME
First seen

Summary

The EUVD entry describes a flaw in Eye of GNOME where a malformed PNG color profile can cause the application to fail chunk-boundary validation while searching for a null terminator. It is scored 3.6 under CVSS v3.1 and requires a user to open a malicious image.

If you use GNOME

Update Eye of GNOME to a patched version when available

Avoid opening PNG images from untrusted sources

Update Epiphany to a release that includes the fix

Avoid clicking through certificate warnings on untrusted sites

Check the GNOME project for the patched version

What the sources say 2

· Mastodon: “A flaw was found in Eye of GNOME.” Source

· Mastodon: “A race condition in Epiphany allows a malicious website to bypass the TLS/SSL certificate warning page.” Source