PT-2017-18785 · Unknown · Imageworsener

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-05-23 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-9203

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ImageWorsener version 1.3.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a buffer underflow, via a crafted image. This is related to the imagew-bmp.c file in the libimageworsener.a library.

Recommendations For ImageWorsener version 1.3.1, consider avoiding the use of crafted images that may trigger the buffer underflow until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of images from untrusted sources to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-9203

Affected Products

Imageworsener

References · 4

• https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener/commit/a4f247707f08e322f0b41e82c3e06e224240a654 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9203 · Security Note
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/20/imageworsener-multiple-vulnerabilities · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-9203 · Vendor Advisory