xvpng.c in xv 3.10a has memory corruption (out-of-bounds write) when decoding PNG comment fields, leading to crashes or potentially code execution, because it uses an incorrect length value.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-03-05T18:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T19:04:05.401Z

Reserved: 2018-03-05T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2017-18215

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-03-05T18:29:00.297

Modified: 2018-03-27T23:55:10.467

Link: CVE-2017-18215

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