Bug 1375255 (CVE-2016-7392) - CVE-2016-7392 autotrace: Out of bounds write when converting bmp image
Summary: CVE-2016-7392 autotrace: Out of bounds write when converting bmp image
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-7392
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1375256 1375257
Blocks: 1856606
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-12 14:51 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2020-07-17 09:29 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2020-07-17 04:23:50 UTC
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description Adam Mariš 2016-09-12 14:51:27 UTC 
It was found that converting any bmp image will cause out-of-bounds heap write in autotrace.

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/475

More details:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/10/autotrace-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-pstoedit_suffix_table_init-output-pstoedit-c/
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-09-12 14:52:02 UTC 
Created autotrace tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1375256]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1375257]
Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2017-01-20 17:02:23 UTC 
This is only reproducible with experimental pstoedit backend which is currently not enabled in Fedora, but I am going to enable it.
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.