Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-1765 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-1765 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-1765?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.6, published 16 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Gnome Localsearch unspecified; Gnome Tracker-Miners unspecified.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-1765?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. 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-2026-1765 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-1765?
- Check whether you run Gnome Localsearch or Gnome Tracker-Miners at an affected version. 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.
Technical details
A heap buffer overflow (specifically an out-of-bounds read) exists in the `extract_txxx_tags` function within `src/extractor/tracker-extract-mp3.c`. The vulnerability is triggered when parsing User Defined Text Information Frames (TXXX) in ID3v2 tags. The code fails to validate if a calculated offset exceeds the total frame size (`csize`) before advancing the data pointer. This leads to an integer underflow during length calculation for `g_convert`, resulting in a very large length value being passed to memory-reading functions. An attacker can exploit this by providing a malicious MP3 file, causing a SIGSEGV (Denial of Service) or potentially leaking heap memory contents.
Affected products
- GNOME localsearch unspecified
- GNOME tracker-miners unspecified
Timeline
- 2026-02-02: other: Vulnerability reported to Red Hat Bugzilla
- 2026-06-16: disclosed: CVE published to NVD