CVE-2017-17440

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

GNU Libextractor 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted GIF, IT (Impulse Tracker), NSFE, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), SID, or XM (eXtended Module) file, as demonstrated by the EXTRACTOR_xm_extract_method function in plugins/xm_extractor.c.

Affected products

GNU libextractor: 1.6

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102116
https://bugs.debian.org/883528#35
https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=7cc63b001ceaf81143795321379c835486d0c92e
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00000.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00001.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00002.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00004.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00005.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102116
https://bugs.debian.org/883528#35
https://gnunet.org/git/libextractor.git/commit/?id=7cc63b001ceaf81143795321379c835486d0c92e
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-11/msg00000.html

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