vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-8698: potrace -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 25, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bm_readbody_bmp function in bitmap_io.c in potrace before 1.13 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted BMP image, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-8699, CVE-2016-8700, CVE-2016-8701, CVE-2016-8702, and CVE-2016-8703.

Solution

debian-upgrade-potrace
Title
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