CVE-2017-15601

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-15601
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-10-18 21:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-02-04 02:29:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Libextractor 1.4 All All All
Application Gnu Libextractor 1.4 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 1198-1] libextractor security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[bug-libextractor] A heap-buffer-overflow vulneribility in png_extractor MISC lists.gnu.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz MISC ftp.gnu.org Product
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