PT-2019-7966 · Free Lossless Image Format+1 · Flif+1

Published 2019-08-15 · Updated 2024-06-25 · CVE-2017-14232

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 Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) version 0.3

Description The issue concerns a denial of service caused by an invalid memory read and application crash. This can be triggered by remote attackers via a crafted flif file, specifically exploiting the read chunk function in flif-dec.cpp.

Recommendations For Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) version 0.3, consider avoiding the use of the read chunk function in flif-dec.cpp until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the processing of crafted flif files 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

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2020-2721

ALT-PU-2020-2988

ALT-PU-2024-4694

ALT-PU-2024-4724

ALT-PU-2024-4911

ALT-PU-2024-8952

CVE-2017-14232

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Flif

References · 49

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14232 · Vendor Advisory
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• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2024-4911 · Vendor Advisory
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• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14232 · Security Note
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• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2024-4694 · Vendor Advisory