Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU38014

Out-of-bounds read in Libextractor - CVE-2017-15922

Published: October 26, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU38014

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15922

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: GNU

Affected software:
Libextractor

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is an out-of-bounds read in the EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method function in plugins/dvi_extractor.c.

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