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CVE-2017-8891

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1187

Description

Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1 allows DoS (SEGV and application crash) via a malformed lepton file because the code does not ensure setup of a correct number of threads.

Affected products

• dropbox Lepton: 1.2.1

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/1
• https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/commit/82167c144a322cc956da45407f6dce8d4303d346
• https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/issues/87
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/1
• https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/commit/82167c144a322cc956da45407f6dce8d4303d346
• https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/issues/87

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