CVE-2017-15601

HIGH 7.5CVE-2017-15601 · Published 18/10/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-15601 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting libextractor (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 76.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libextractor gnu	`= 1.4`	No fix yet

Description

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

References

lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html · Exploit
ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz · Product
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

libextractor

gnu

= 1.4

No fix yet

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