CVE-2016-8685

MEDIUM

potrace <1.13 - DoS

Title source: llm

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 (4)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 47.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-119
Status published

Affected Products (2)

potrace_project/potrace < 1.12
n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Jan 31, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026