PT-2017-9745 · Potrace+1 · Potrace+1

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2015-10-29 · Updated 2017-02-05 · CVE-2016-8697

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 versions prior to 1.13

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a divide-by-zero error and crash, via a crafted BMP image. This is due to a problem in the bm new function in bitmap.h.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.13, update to version 1.13 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Divide By Zero

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-369

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1929

CVE-2016-8697

DLA-675-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Potrace

References · 11

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8697 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8697 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8697 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/11 · Note
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/08/potrace-divide-by-zero-in-bm_new-bitmap-h · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/93778 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/12 · Note