CVE-2017-15602: GNU Libextractor

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is an integer signedness error for the chunk size in the EXTRACTOR_nsfe_extract_method function in plugins/nsfe_extractor.c, leading to an infinite loop for a crafted size.

Affected products

• GNU Libextractor: version 1.4 only

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