Out-of-Bounds Affecting libextractor package, versions [,1.4]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBEXTRACTOR-2374253
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15601  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libextractor.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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