CVE-2017-18215

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-03-05

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

• Leap (Opensuse)
• Xv (Xv Project)

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/attachment.cgi?id=728337
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043479
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-02/msg00088.html