CVE-2017-18215

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    CVE-2017-18215

    Published: 5 Mar 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: , 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

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