Bug 1477103 (CVE-2017-12067)

Summary: CVE-2017-12067 potrace: heap-based buffer over-read in the interpolate_cubic function
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-08-01 08:40:25 UTC
Potrace 1.14 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the interpolate_cubic
function in mkbitmap.c.

Reproducer and ASAN report:

https://github.com/hackerlib/hackerlib-vul/tree/master/potrace/heap-buffer-overflow-mkbitmap

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-08-01 08:41:23 UTC
Created potrace tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1477104]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1477105]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:19:37 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.