ubuntu-cve-2015-8472
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2015-12-09 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:37
Summary
Details

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
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libpng12-0",
            "binary_version": "1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpng3",
            "binary_version": "1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "libpng",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libpng@1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.2.49-4ubuntu1",
        "1.2.49-5ubuntu1",
        "1.2.50-1ubuntu1",
        "1.2.50-1ubuntu2",
        "1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8472",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:37:51Z",
  "published": "2015-12-09T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8472"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://marc.info/?l=oss-security\u0026m=144929077710907\u0026w=2"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2861-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1224244#c0"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8472"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-2861-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2015-8472"
  ]
}



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