CVE-2017-17440: GNU Libextractor

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

GNU Libextractor 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted GIF, IT (Impulse Tracker), NSFE, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), SID, or XM (eXtended Module) file, as demonstrated by the EXTRACTOR_xm_extract_method function in plugins/xm_extractor.c.

Affected products

• GNU Libextractor: version 1.6 only

Published 2017-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.