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CVE-2017-15601

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the EXTRACTOR_png_extract_method function in plugins/png_extractor.c, related to processiTXt and stndup.

Affected products

• GNU libextractor: 1.4

References

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html
• https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00006.html
• https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html

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