CVE-2017-8891

medium

Description

Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1 allows DoS (SEGV and application crash) via a malformed lepton file because the code does not ensure setup of a correct number of threads.

References

Advisories

https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/issues/87

https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/commit/82167c144a322cc956da45407f6dce8d4303d346

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-05-10

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