PT-2017-9733 · Potrace+1 · Potrace+1

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2015-10-29 · Updated 2017-03-12 · CVE-2016-8685

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions potrace version 1.13

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in invalid memory access and a crash, by providing a crafted BMP image. This is due to a problem in the findnext function in decompose.c.

Recommendations For potrace version 1.13, consider avoiding the use of crafted BMP images to prevent the denial of service. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1929

ALT-PU-2017-1196

CVE-2016-8685

DLA-889-1

MGASA-2017-0073

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11189-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Potrace

References · 15

• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0073.html · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8685 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8685 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8685 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8685 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8685 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0073 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8685 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8685 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/17 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/9 · Note
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/29/potrace-invalid-memory-access-in-findnext-decompose-c · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/93470 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19604 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/10 · Note