MGASA-2015-0474

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    MGASA-2015-0474

    Published: 16 Dec 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated potrace packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: Potrace before 1.13 has some critical bugs in the processing of BMP files. These bugs allowed the program to be crashed, or potentially to be abused in other ways, by feeding it specially crafted BMP files, due to heap overflow, null pointer dereference, and divide by zero issues.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0474.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17317, http://potrace.sourceforge.net/NEWS, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173441.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: potrace

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/potrace?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.13-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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