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Ubuntu: USN-4641-1 (CVE-2017-17440): libextractor vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4641-1 (CVE-2017-17440): libextractor vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/06/2017
Created
11/27/2020
Added
11/24/2020
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

GNU Libextractor 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted GIF, IT (Impulse Tracker), NSFE, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), SID, or XM (eXtended Module) file, as demonstrated by the EXTRACTOR_xm_extract_method function in plugins/xm_extractor.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-extract
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libextractor-dev
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libextractor3

References

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