CVE-2016-8685
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
The findnext function in decompose.c in potrace 1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and crash) via a crafted BMP image.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.13-3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.13-3 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1.13-3 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.13-3 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.13-3 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| potrace_project | potrace | {"endIncluding":"1.12"} | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/17
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93470
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/29/potrace-invalid-memory-access-in-findnext-decompose-c/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8685
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.