Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU17017

Memory leak in libpng - CVE-2019-6129

Published: January 16, 2019 / Updated: April 18, 2019

Vulnerability identifier: #VU17017

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6129

CWE-ID: CWE-401

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in png_create_info_struct in png.c. A remote attacker can trigger memory leak and perform denial of service attack.

Affected software

libpng
MikTex

How to mitigate CVE-2019-6129

Update to the latest version.

libpng - update to 1.6.37
MikTex - update to 2.9.7300

External References

https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/269

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