Bug 1515309 (CVE-2017-15922) - CVE-2017-15922 libextractor: Out of bounds read in the EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method function
Summary: CVE-2017-15922 libextractor: Out of bounds read in the EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-15922
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2017-11-20 14:36 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-11-20 14:36:49 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-11-20 14:36:23 UTC 
In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is an out-of-bounds read in the EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method function in plugins/dvi_extractor.c. A local attacker could use this for a denial of service attack.
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-11-20 14:36:49 UTC 
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00008.html
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