Vulnerability CVE-2015-7508

Vulnerability CVE-2015-7508

Published: 2020-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
High	libnsbmp heap overflow and out-of-bounds read	Hans Jerry Illik...	17.12.2015

Type:

CWE-787

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10	6.4/10	8.6/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Medium	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
Netsurf-browser -> Libnsbmp

References:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/73

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/537132/100/0/threaded

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