Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-107651 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-107651 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-107651?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.5, published 8 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- GNOME Eye of GNOME.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-107651?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. No mitigation is available; users must upgrade to a patched version once released. Server deployments without graphical desktop environments are not exposed to this flaw. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-107651 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-107651?
- Check whether you run Gnome Eye of GNOME. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
How to fix
No mitigation is available; users must upgrade to a patched version once released. Server deployments without graphical desktop environments are not exposed to this flaw.
Technical details
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the PNG metadata reader due to improper state handling when parsing split metadata chunks (CWE-122). The vulnerability requires user interaction to open a malicious PNG file and is triggered through local parsing of untrusted image data. Confirmed impact is denial of service via application crash; code execution is theoretically possible but unconfirmed.
Affected products
- GNOME Eye of GNOME
Timeline
- 2026-10-08: disclosed