UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15602

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15602

    Published: 18 Oct 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-15602
    Aliases:
    USN-4641-1

    Summary:

    Details: In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is an integer signedness error for the chunk size in the EXTRACTOR_nsfe_extract_method function in plugins/nsfe_extractor.c, leading to an infinite loop for a crafted size.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15602, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libextractor/2017-10/msg00005.html, https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libextractor/libextractor-1.6.tar.gz, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4641-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15602

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libextractor

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libextractor@1:1.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1:1.1-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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