CVE-2017-14108: Gnome Gedit

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libgedit.a in GNOME gedit through 3.22.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a file that begins with many '\0' characters.

Affected products

• Gnome Gedit: up to and including 3.22.1

Published 2017-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.