DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15601

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15601
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15601.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15601
Upstream
Published
2017-10-18T21:29:00.413Z
Modified
2025-11-14T03:05:48.672127Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libextractor

Package

Name
libextractor
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libextractor?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15601.json"

Debian:12 / libextractor

Package

Name
libextractor
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libextractor?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15601.json"

Debian:13 / libextractor

Package

Name
libextractor
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libextractor?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15601.json"

Debian:14 / libextractor

Package

Name
libextractor
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libextractor?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:1.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15601.json"