debian · CVE-2017-17440

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:01:32 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-17440 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libextractor), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 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.

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