CVE-2015-0848 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0848?

CVE-2015-0848 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 1 Jul 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in libwmf 0.2.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP image.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0848?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Opensuse, Wvware Libwmf.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0848?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-0848 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0848 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0848, GHSA-8h7p-8xq5-x3gj, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0848.