CVE-2017-15601: GNU Libextractor

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the EXTRACTOR_png_extract_method function in plugins/png_extractor.c, related to processiTXt and stndup.

Affected products

• GNU Libextractor: version 1.4 only

Published 2017-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.