CVE-2016-8685

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-01-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The findnext function in decompose.c in potrace 1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and crash) via a crafted BMP image.

Affected products

Potrace Project Potrace: through 1.12

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/17
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93470
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/29/potrace-invalid-memory-access-in-findnext-decompose-c/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/08/17
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93470
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/29/potrace-invalid-memory-access-in-findnext-decompose-c/

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