CVE-2017-17440 Information

Description

GNU Libextractor 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted GIF IT (Impulse Tracker) NSFE S3M (Scream Tracker 3) SID or XM (eXtended Module) file as demonstrated by the EXTRACTOR_xm_extract_method function in plugins/xm_extractor.c.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102116 https://bugs.debian.org/88352835 https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=7cc63b001ceaf81143795321379c835486d0c92e https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00000.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00001.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00002.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00004.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00005.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5