PT-2015-6672 · Linux+5 · Libwmf+5

Fernando Muñoz · Published 2015-07-01 · Updated 2025-09-03 · CVE-2015-4695

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 libwmf version 0.2.8.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically an out-of-bounds read, by using a crafted WMF file.

Recommendations For libwmf version 0.2.8.4, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2327

ALT-PU-2025-10401

ALT-PU-2025-11012

CESA-2015_1917

CVE-2015-4695

DLA-257-1

DSA-3302-1

MGASA-2015-0261

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10337-1

RHSA-2015:1917

RHSA-2015_1917

SUSE-SU-2015:1378-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1484-1

USN-2670-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Libwmf

References · 82

• 🔥 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784205 · Exploit
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2670-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-08514 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2670-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4695 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libwmf · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-1917.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4696 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3302-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-4695 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162569.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-4695 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-03 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-08515 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:1378-1 · Vendor Advisory