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CVE-2017-15601

Date: October 18, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz

Url: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15601

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15601

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-15601

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-15601

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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