[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#862446: lepton: CVE-2017-8891

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Fri May 12 19:11:32 UTC 2017


Source: lepton
Version: 1.2.1-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security
Forwarded: https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/issues/87

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for lepton.

CVE-2017-8891[0]:
| Dropbox Lepton 1.2.1 allows DoS (SEGV and application crash) via a
| malformed lepton file because the code does not ensure setup of a
| correct number of threads.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8891
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8891
[1] https://github.com/dropbox/lepton/issues/87

Regards,
Salvatore



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