CVE-2016-8695 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Potrace versions prior to 1.13. It allows a remote attacker to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and crash by providing a specially crafted BMP image to the bm_readbody_bmp function. Rated Medium with a CVSS score of 5.5, this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) for exploitation, leading to high availability impact (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:potrace_project:potrace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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