PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-12-06 17:29:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2017-17440
PublicDate: 2017-12-06 17:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17440
 https://bugs.debian.org/883528#35
 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00000.html
 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00001.html
 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00002.html
 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00004.html
 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00005.html
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4641-1
Description:
 GNU Libextractor 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
 (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted GIF, IT
 (Impulse Tracker), NSFE, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), SID, or XM (eXtended
 Module) file, as demonstrated by the EXTRACTOR_xm_extract_method function
 in plugins/xm_extractor.c.
Ubuntu-Description:
 It was discovered tha Libextractor incorrectly handled certain files. An
 attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883528
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [6.5 MEDIUM]


Patches_libextractor:
 other: https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=7cc63b001ceaf81143795321379c835486d0c92e
upstream_libextractor: released (1:1.3-2+deb8u1, 1:1.3-4+deb9u1, 1:1.6-2)
precise/esm_libextractor: DNE
trusty_libextractor: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_libextractor: DNE (trusty was needed)
xenial_libextractor: released (1:1.3-4+deb9u3build0.16.04.1)
zesty_libextractor: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_libextractor: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.6-2)
cosmic_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.6-2)
disco_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.6-2)
eoan_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.6-2)
focal_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.6-2)
groovy_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.6-2)
devel_libextractor: not-affected (1:1.6-2)