Out-of-Bounds Affecting potrace package, versions [,1.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POTRACE-2381708
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-8686  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade potrace to version 1.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. The bm_new function in bitmap.h in potrace 1.13 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, which triggers a memory allocation failure.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1