CVE-2017-2575 in libbpg

Summary

A vulnerability was found while fuzzing libbpg 0.9.7. It is a NULL pointer dereference issue due to missing check of the return value of function malloc in the BPG encoder. This vulnerability appeared while converting a malicious JPEG file to BPG.

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• Reservation: 11/30/2016
• Disclosure: 08/22/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-123129 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-476 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.4
• EPSS: 0.00556
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2575
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2575
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-2575/