A vulnerability was found while fuzzing libbpg 0.9.7.

Published 8 y ago 2018-08-22 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

6.5

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.4%

percentile 73%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.44% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	6.5	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`
NVD	2.0	4.3	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`

Affected products

Fabrice Bellard libbpg

Classification

Weakness

CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

References

securityfocus.com /bid/97963 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
seclists.org /oss-sec/2017/q2/100 · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/148857 · Third Party Advisory

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-2575
NVD: CVE-2017-2575

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