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.
References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.suse.com/attachment.cgi?id=728337 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043479 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-02/msg00088.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-10-03T16:23:15

Updated: 2022-10-03T16:23:15

Reserved: 2022-10-03T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-18215

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-03-05T18:29:00.297

Modified: 2018-03-27T23:55:10.467


Link: CVE-2017-18215

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CWE