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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2017-7263 low priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (inkscape, potrace), 46 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 34, ignored 6, DNE 2, needed 2, needs-triage 1, released 1.
The bm_readbody_bmp function in bitmap_io.c in Potrace 1.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted BMP image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-8698.