Session crash via unchecked search-provider icon dimensions
Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026
Out-of-bounds read in GNOME Shell on Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows local users to crash a desktop session via a D-Bus search provider. Remote-search icon rendering trusts declared dimensions without checking them against the returned icon-data buffer, causing an out-of-bounds read. Exploitation requires control of a registered D-Bus search provider; the read can crash GNOME Shell and can expose adjacent process memory.
Summary
What happened
Out-of-bounds read in GNOME Shell on Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows local users to crash a desktop session via a D-Bus search provider. Remote-search icon rendering trusts declared dimensions without checking them against the returned icon-data buffer, causing an out-of-bounds read. Exploitation requires control of a registered D-Bus search provider; the read can crash GNOME Shell and can expose adjacent process memory.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-91786
- Published
- Sep 15, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 15, 2026
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
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- Sep 15, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 15, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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