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Medium 6.1Published Sep 15, 2026

CVE-2026-91786Gnome-shell: gnome-shell: out-of-bounds read in remote search icon rendering due to unvalidated icon-data buffer size

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It affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

A flaw was found in GNOME Shell. When processing icons from a remote search provider via D-Bus, the system fails to validate the icon's declared dimensions against the actual data buffer size. A malicious or compromised remote search provider could exploit this by providing oversized icon dimensions, leading to an out-of-bounds read. This can cause the GNOME Shell process to crash, disrupting the user's session, and potentially disclose sensitive information from adjacent memory.

CVSS
6.1 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-125
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
redhat
NVD analysis
Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated
Sep 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
10
CNA record

References

  • vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
  • issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat

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