What is CVE-2017-9153?

CVE-2017-9153 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Autotrace Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-05-23.

How severe is CVE-2017-9153?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Autotrace Project

CVE-2017-9153

libautotrace.a in AutoTrace 0.31.1 has a heap-based buffer overflow in the pnm_load_rawpbm function in input-pnm.c:391:13.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-05-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.025 (83.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 83.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Autotrace Project — versions 0.31.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201708-09 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/05/20/autotrace-multiple-vulnerabilities-the-autotrac… (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9153?: CVE-2017-9153 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Autotrace Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-05-23.
How severe is CVE-2017-9153?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.