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CVE-2017-6311

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6311 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.c, affecting gdk-pixbuf in Fedora and GNOME products. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and application crash by manipulating error message printing, leading to a high-severity impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.36.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdk-pixbuf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0347 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-6311Low

gdk-pixbuf: NULL pointer dereference in gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer

Feb 5, 2017

References

mov.sx / 2017/02/21/bug-hunting-gdk-pixbuf.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SJF5ARFOX4BFUK6YCBKGAKBQYECO3AI2
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VSAZ6UCKKXC5VOWXGWQHOX2ZBLLATIOT
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201709-08
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/21/4
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/26/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96779
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry