| Name | CVE-2017-15601 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1198-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libextractor (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:1.3-2+deb8u5 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1:1.3-4+deb9u4 | fixed |
| buster | 1:1.8-2+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1:1.11-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:1.11-7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:1.13-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html
Fixed by https://git.gnunet.org/libextractor.git/commit/?id=f813535dad4ad860b989952a46266a1469801091