CVE-2016-8685

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 31, 2017
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Oct 15, 2016

Description

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

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

93470vdb-entry
[oss-security] 20161008 potrace: invalid memory access in findnext (decompose.c)mailing-list
[oss-security] 20161015 Re: potrace: invalid memory access in findnext (decompose.c)mailing-list
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/29/potrace-invalid-memory-access-in-findnext-decompose-c/

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