NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libgxps  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-LIBGXPS-618066
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed24 Jul 2017

Introduced: 24 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11590  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgxps package and not the libgxps package as distributed by Ubuntu.

There is a NULL pointer dereference in the caseless_hash function in gxps-archive.c in libgxps 0.2.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.