Multiple integer overflows in potrace 1.11 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large dimensions in a BMP image, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in potrace.

CVE-2013-7437

Multiple integer overflows in potrace 1.11 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large dimensions in a BMP image, which triggers a buffer overflow. This bug was reported by Murray McAllister of the Red Hat Security Response Team.

CVE-2016-8694 CVE-2016-8695 CVE-2016-8696

Multiple NULL pointer dereferences in bm_readbody_bmp. This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.

CVE-2016-8697

Division by zero in bm_new. This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.

CVE-2016-8698 CVE-2016-8699 CVE-2016-8700 CVE-2016-8701 CVE-2016-8702 CVE-2016-8703

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in bm_readbody_bmp. This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 1.10-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your potrace packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

potrace was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

  - CVE-2013-7437: Multiple integer overflows in potrace     1.11 allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (crash) via large dimensions in a BMP image,     which triggers a buffer overflow (bsc#924904).

The bitmap to vector graphic tracing utility potrace was updated to fix one security issue.

The following vulnerability was fixed :

  - Very large bitmaps could trigger a buffer overflow,     crashing the program and causing denial of service     (bsc#924904, CVE-2013-7437)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
94293	Debian DLA-675-1 : potrace security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
86739	openSUSE Security Update : potrace (openSUSE-2015-704)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
82654	openSUSE Security Update : potrace (openSUSE-2015-297)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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