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CVE-2015-0848

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0848 is a heap-based buffer overflow in libwmf 0.2.8.4, affecting various Fedora and openSUSE products. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code by supplying a specially crafted BMP image, with a CVSS score of 6.8 indicating medium severity. While the attack complexity is medium, successful exploitation could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.2.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wvware:libwmf:0.2.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-23
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0854 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libwmf-0:0.2.8.4-25.el6_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libwmf-0:0.2.8.4-41.el7_1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libwmf

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-0848Important

libwmf: heap overflow when decoding BMP images

Jun 1, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/160668.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168507.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165547.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00051.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00053.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00018.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1917.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201602-03
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3302
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/06/01/2
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
securityfocus.com / bid/74923
securitytracker.com / id/1032771
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2670-1