CVE-2016-8685

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The findnext function in decompose.c in potrace 1.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and crash) via a crafted BMP image.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Jan 31, 2017
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2016-8685: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix