What is CVE-2017-16663?

CVE-2017-16663 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sam2p Project, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-11-08.

How severe is CVE-2017-16663?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Integer overflow in Sam2p Project

CVE-2017-16663

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.

Vulnerability class: Integer Overflow

Published 2017-11-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (57.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.009 · change: -0.004

Affected products

Sam2p Project — versions 0.49.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

github.com/pts/sam2p/issues/16 (Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00031.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16663?: CVE-2017-16663 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Sam2p Project, classified under Integer Overflow or Wraparound. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-11-08.
How severe is CVE-2017-16663?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.