CVE-2017-9169

Critical

Published: 23/05/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

The libautotrace.a in AutoTrace 0.31.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the ReadImage function in input-bmp.c at line 355.

The buffer overflow may lead to the execution of malicious code, posing a serious security threat to the system.

It is recommended to update to a newer version of AutoTrace to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

libautotrace.a in AutoTrace 0.31.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the ReadImage function in input-bmp.c:355:25.