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CVE-2015-4696
Use-after-free vulnerability in libwmf 0.2.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted WMF file to the…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 5.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in libwmf 0.2.8.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted WMF file to the (1) wmf2gd or (2) wmf2eps command.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.9% · top 6.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- DSA-3302 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- GLSA-201602-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 75331 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2670-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784192 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-10601 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150621 Re: CVE-2015-0848 - Heap overflow on libwmf0.2-7 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1032771 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1212 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1917 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150617 Re: CVE-2015-0848 - Heap overflow on libwmf0.2-7 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-4715 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-4696)Record last updated .