998460 – (CVE-2016-7392) VUL-0: CVE-2016-7392: autotrace: Out of bounds write when converting bmp image

Bug 998460 (CVE-2016-7392) - VUL-0: CVE-2016-7392: autotrace: Out of bounds write when converting bmp image

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2016-7392: autotrace: Out of bounds write when converting bmp image

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	CVE-2016-7392

Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other openSUSE 42.1

Priority:	P3 - Medium Severity: Normal
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Assignee:	Stanislav Brabec
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/172507/
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Reported:	2016-09-12 19:49 UTC by Victor Pereira
Modified:	2018-10-30 08:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Victor Pereira 2016-09-12 19:49:44 UTC

rh#1375255

It was found that converting any bmp image will cause out-of-bounds heap write in autotrace.


More details:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/10/autotrace-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-pstoedit_suffix_table_init-output-pstoedit-c/

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375255
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-7392
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/475

Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-09-12 22:00:23 UTC

bugbot adjusting priority

Comment 2 Markéta Machová 2018-10-30 08:21:05 UTC

we are going to drop the whole package anyway