CVE-2015-8472
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Description
Buffer overflow in the png_set_PLTE function in libpng before 1.0.65, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.55, 1.3.x, 1.4.x before 1.4.18, 1.5.x before 1.5.25, and 1.6.x before 1.6.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk in a PNG image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8126.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174905.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174936.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175073.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00038.html
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