Package: potrace
Severity: serious
Tags: security

Hi,

the following vulnerabilities were published for potrace.

CVE-2016-8685[0]:
invalid memory access in findnext (decompose.c)

CVE-2016-8686[1]:
memory allocation failure

See also:

 
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/08/29/potrace-invalid-memory-access-in-findnext-decompose-c/

for more.

If you fix the vulnerabilities please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) ids in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8685
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8685
[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8686
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8686
Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.


Regards,

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