CVE-2017-8891
medium
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1 allows DoS (SEGV and application crash) via a malformed lepton file because the code does not ensure setup of a correct number of threads.
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.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| dropbox | lepton | 1.2.1 | |
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/1
- https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/commit/82167c144a322cc956da45407f6dce8d4303d346
- https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/issues/87
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/1
- https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/commit/82167c144a322cc956da45407f6dce8d4303d346
- https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/issues/87
CWEs
CWE-1187
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.