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CVE-2015-4588

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-07-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the DecodeImage function in libwmf 0.2.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted "run-length count" in an image in a WMF file.

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.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/2015/06/03/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/4
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75230
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032771
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2670-1

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