CVE-2016-8685

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

1%p71

Published

Jan 31, 2017 (Jan 31, 2017)

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.

Vendors: potrace project
Products: potrace
Weakness: CWE-119
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.4%)

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