CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18215
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
xvpng.c in xv 3.10a has memory corruption (out-of-bounds write) when decoding PNG comment fields, leading to crashes or potentially code execution, because it uses an incorrect length value.
Affected configurations
• xv project xv 3.10a
• opensuse leap 42.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/attachment.cgi?id=728337 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043479 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-02/msg00088.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/attachment.cgi?id=728337 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043479 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-02/msg00088.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory