Information disclosure in libpng - CVE-2015-7981
Published: October 25, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU82373
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7981
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: libpng
Affected software:
libpng
libpng
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive data output by the application. A remote attacker can obtain sensitive process memory information via crafted tIME chunk data in an image file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-7981
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172620.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172647.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172663.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00033.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00160.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2594.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2595.html
- http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/bugs/241/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng10/1.0.64/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng12/1.2.54/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng14/1.4.17/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3399
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/26/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/26/3
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77304
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034393
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2815-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1430
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-08