CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-11590

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jul 24, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025

CVSS 3.x

7.5

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.x

4.3 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

3.3 LOW

Ubuntu

LOW

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11590
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

There is a NULL pointer dereference in the caseless_hash function in gxps-archive.c in libgxps 0.2.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Libgxps	Gnome	0.2.5 (including)	0.2.5 (including)
Libgxps	Ubuntu	upstream	*
Libgxps	Ubuntu	zesty	*

Potential Mitigations

References

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