PT-2017-9925 · Sourceforge+2 · Libwmf+2

Andrej Nemec · Published 2016-11-14 · Updated 2025-09-03 · CVE-2016-9011

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 libwmf version 0.2.8.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by utilizing a crafted wmf file. This triggers a memory allocation failure in the wmf malloc function.

Recommendations For libwmf version 0.2.8.4, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version may lead to a denial of service due to memory allocation failures when processing crafted wmf files. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2327

ALT-PU-2025-10401

ALT-PU-2025-11012

CVE-2016-9011

DLA-694-1

MGASA-2016-0376

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_1516-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1516-1

SUSE-SU-2022:1560-1

SUSE-SU-2022_1516-1

SUSE-SU-2022_1560-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Libwmf

References · 27

• 🔥 https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00015-libwmf-memalloc-wmf_malloc · Exploit
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0376.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9011 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1560-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9011 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9011 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9011 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9011 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0376 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9011 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:1516-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9011 · Vendor Advisory
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/10/18/libwmf-memory-allocation-failure-in-wmf_malloc-api-c · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-6978 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1123522 · Note