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CVE-2015-7508

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-02-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bmp_decode_rle function in libnsbmp.c in Libnsbmp 0.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the last row of RLE data in a crafted BMP file.

Affected products

• Libnsbmp: 0.1.2

References

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/73
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/537132/100/0/threaded
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Dec/73
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/537132/100/0/threaded

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