CVE-2017-16663

Publication date 8 November 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In sam2p 0.49.4, there are integer overflows (with resultant heap-based buffer overflows) in input-bmp.ci in the function ReadImage, because "width * height" multiplications occur unsafely.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that Sam2p incorrectly handled certain image files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sam2p	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.49.2-3+deb8u3build0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.49.2-3+deb8u3build0.14.04.1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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