Vulnerability CVE-2017-18215
Published: 2018-03-05

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-787

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Xv project -> XV 
Opensuse -> LEAP 

 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
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