ubuntu · CVE-2017-8891

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-8891 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (lepton), 8 status rows across 8 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 3, DNE 2, not-affected 2, released 1.

Description:

Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1 allows DoS (SEGV and application crash) via a malformed lepton file because the code does not ensure setup of a correct number of threads.