CVE-2017-17440

medium

Published 2017-12-06 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

GNU Libextractor 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted GIF, IT (Impulse Tracker), NSFE, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), SID, or XM (eXtended Module) file, as demonstrated by the EXTRACTOR_xm_extract_method function in plugins/xm_extractor.c.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`1.7-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:1.6-2`
sid	Fixed	`1:1.6-2`
forky	Fixed	`1:1.6-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:1.6-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:1.6-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnu	libextractor	`1.6`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.