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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-17141: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 21, 2018
Added
Oct 10, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

HylaFAX 6.0.6 and HylaFAX+ 5.6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a dial-in session that provides a FAX page with the JPEG bit enabled, which is mishandled in FaxModem::writeECMData() in the faxd/CopyQuality.c++ file.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-hylafax
Title
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