A vulnerability was found in AutoTrace 0.31.1 (Image Processing Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the file input-tga.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-190. The software performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound, when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This can introduce other weaknesses when the calculation is used for resource management or execution control. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

libautotrace.a in AutoTrace 0.31.1 has a "cannot be represented in type int" issue in input-tga.c:508:18.

The bug was discovered 05/20/2017. The weakness was disclosed 05/23/2017 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at blogs.gentoo.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-9198 since 05/22/2017. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries 101660, 101661, 101662 and 101663 are pretty similar.

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