CVE-2015-0848

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in libwmf 0.2.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP image.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 21
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
wvWare Libwmf: 0.2.8.4

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160668.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168507.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165547.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00051.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00053.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00018.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1917.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3302
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/01/2
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74923
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032771

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