ubuntu · CVE-2016-8702

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-01-31 22:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:12:39 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-8702 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (inkscape, potrace), 20 status rows across 10 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 12, ignored 4, DNE 2, needs-triage 1, released 1.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bm_readbody_bmp function in bitmap_io.c in potrace before 1.13 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted BMP image, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-8698, CVE-2016-8699, CVE-2016-8700, CVE-2016-8701, and CVE-2016-8703.

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