CVE-2015-7508

HIGH 8.8CVE-2015-7508 · Published 12/02/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-7508 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting libnsbmp (netsurf-browser).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.1%, higher than 87.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libnsbmp netsurf-browser	`= 0.1.2`	No fix yet

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bmp_decode_rle function in libnsbmp.c in Libnsbmp 0.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the last row of RLE data in a crafted BMP file.

References

seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/73 · Exploit
securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/537132/100/0/threaded · Broken Link

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