CVE-2016-8685

MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.08%

potrace - security update

Published: 1/31/2017Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (1)