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CVE-2017-18215

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

xvpng.c in xv 3.10a has memory corruption (out-of-bounds write) when decoding PNG comment fields, leading to crashes or potentially code execution, because it uses an incorrect length value.

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 42.3
• Xv Project Xv: 3.10a

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/attachment.cgi?id=728337
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043479
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-02/msg00088.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/attachment.cgi?id=728337
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043479
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-02/msg00088.html

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