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CVE-2013-7437

Published: 29 March 2015

Multiple integer overflows in potrace 1.11 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via large dimensions in a BMP image, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
inkscape in xenial and earlier embeds libpotrace (LP: #1156664)
I don't see a public development tree for potrace but comment #42 of
the Debian bug contains a broken out patch from the upstream potrace
maintainer
mdeslaur
potrace in inkscape works on bitmaps already loaded, not
arbitrary images. Marking as not-affected for inkscape.

Priority

Low

Status

Package Release Status
inkscape
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Ignored
(end of life)
artful Not vulnerable
(uses system potrace)
bionic Not vulnerable
(uses system potrace)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(uses system potrace)
disco Not vulnerable
(uses system potrace)
lucid Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [no attack vector])
upstream Needed

utopic Ignored
(end of life)
vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Not vulnerable
(no attack vector)
yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Not vulnerable
(uses system potrace)
potrace
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (1.10-1+deb7u1build0.12.04.1)
artful
Released (1.12-1)
bionic
Released (1.12-1)
cosmic
Released (1.12-1)
disco
Released (1.12-1)
lucid Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream
Released (1.12)
utopic Ignored
(end of life)
vivid
Released (1.12-1)
wily
Released (1.12-1)
xenial
Released (1.12-1)
yakkety
Released (1.12-1)
zesty
Released (1.12-1)
Patches:
upstream: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778646#42 (from upstream maintainer)