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CVE-2017-15922

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is an out-of-bounds read in the EXTRACTOR_dvi_extract_method function in plugins/dvi_extractor.c.

Affected products

• GNU libextractor: 1.4

References

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00008.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101595
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html
• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00008.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101595
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00000.html

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