CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15601
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the EXTRACTOR_png_extract_method function in plugins/png_extractor.c, related to processiTXt and stndup.
Affected configurations
• gnu libextractor 1.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz Product
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html lists.debian.org
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz Product
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html lists.debian.org