CVSS 3.0
7.3 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LCVE-2015-8472
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apple:mac_os_x
- libpng:libpng
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