PT-2015-3586 · Potrace · Potrace

Murray Mcallister · Published 2015-03-29 · Updated 2023-12-21 · CVE-2013-7437

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions potrace version 1.11

Description The issue is related to multiple integer overflows that allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash. This is achieved by exploiting large dimensions in a BMP image, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Recommendations For potrace version 1.11, consider updating to a newer version that addresses the integer overflows to prevent the denial of service and buffer overflow issues. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-7437

DLA-675-1

MGASA-2015-0161

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10202-1

Affected Products

Potrace

References · 16

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955808 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7437 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7437 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7437 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-7437 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00034.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-7437 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0161 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7437 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-7437 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0161.html · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00016.html · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/06/12 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778646 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/64706 · Telegram Post