CVE-2016-8685

medium

Description

The findnext function in decompose.c in potrace 1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and crash) via a crafted BMP image.

References

Advisories

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/29/potrace-invalid-memory-access-in-findnext-decompose-c/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93470

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/9

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/17

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-01-31

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H