Out-of-bounds Read Affecting potrace package, versions [,1.14]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POTRACE-2381717
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12067  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for potrace.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. Potrace 1.14 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the interpolate_cubic function in mkbitmap.c.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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