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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-POTRACE-2381720
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed31 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-8685  (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 findnext function in decompose.c in potrace 1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and crash) via a crafted BMP image.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1