Published: 31/01/2017 Updated: 05/02/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 383

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The findnext function in decompose.c in potrace 1.13 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and crash) via a crafted BMP image.

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Debian Bug report logs - #843861 potrace: CVE-2016-8685: invalid memory access in findnext Package: potrace; Maintainer for potrace is Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debianorg>; Source for potrace is src:potrace (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Chris Lamb <lamby@debianorg> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:21:02 UTC Severity: se ...

Debian Bug report logs - #850595 potrace: CVE-2016-8686: memory allocation failure Package: potrace; Maintainer for potrace is Bartosz Fenski <fenio@debianorg>; Source for potrace is src:potrace (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Chris Lamb <lamby@debianorg> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:21:02 UTC Severity: normal Tag ...

CWE-119 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/29/potrace-invalid-memory-access-in-findnext-decompose-c/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93470 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/17 https://nvd.nist.gov https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843861

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