CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17440

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-12-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

GNU Libextractor 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted GIF, IT (Impulse Tracker), NSFE, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), SID, or XM (eXtended Module) file, as demonstrated by the EXTRACTOR_xm_extract_method function in plugins/xm_extractor.c.

Affected configurations

• gnu libextractor 1.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References