CVE-2017-18215 — Out-of-bounds Write in Leap

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write2 documents2 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.1%
top 21.96%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Opensuse LeapXV Project XV
Timeline
PublishedMar 5
Latest updateMay 14

Description

xvpng.c in xv 3.10a has memory corruption (out-of-bounds write) when decoding PNG comment fields, leading to crashes or potentially code execution, because it uses an incorrect length value.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDopensuse/leap42.3
▶NVDxv_project/xv3.10a

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-99x2-jhx8-rqm7: xvpng↗2022-05-14
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