Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libplist package, versions <1.12+git+1+e37ca00-0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.93% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-LIBPLIST-1550500
  • published3 Mar 2017
  • disclosed3 Mar 2017

Introduced: 3 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-5835  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 libplist to version 1.12+git+1+e37ca00-0.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libplist package and not the libplist package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

libplist allows attackers to cause a denial of service (large memory allocation and crash) via vectors involving an offset size of zero.