CVE-2017-15601 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5