CVE-2017-15601

HIGH

GNU Libextractor 1.4 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in PNG iTXt Chunk Processing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the EXTRACTOR_png_extract_method function in plugins/png_extractor.c, related to processiTXt and stndup.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 62.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/libextractor 1.4
Published Oct 18, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026