PT-2015-7945 · Potrace · Potrace

Published 2015-12-16 · Updated 2015-12-16

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Potrace versions prior to 1.13

Description The issue is related to critical bugs in the processing of BMP files, which can cause the program to crash or potentially be exploited in other ways by feeding it specially crafted BMP files. The bugs are due to heap overflow, null pointer dereference, and divide by zero issues.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.13, update to version 1.13 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of specially crafted BMP files that could trigger the heap overflow, null pointer dereference, or divide by zero issues until a patch is available.

Related Identifiers

MGASA-2015-0474

Affected Products

Potrace

References · 5

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0474.html · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173441.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0474 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17317 · Note
• http://potrace.sourceforge.net/NEWS · Note