Bug 1510986 (CVE-2017-15601)

Summary:	CVE-2017-15601 libextractor: Heap based buffer overflow in the EXTRACTOR_png_extract_method function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-11-08 13:47:26 UTC

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the EXTRACTOR_png_extract_method function in plugins/png_extractor.c, related to processiTXt and stndup.

References:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html