#VU32352 Input validation error in libpng - CVE-2015-8472

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#VU32352 Input validation error in libpng - CVE-2015-8472

Published: January 21, 2016 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32352
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8472
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
libpng
Software vendor:
libpng

Description

The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can 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.


Remediation

The vendor has issued the following versions to address this vulnerability: 1.0.65, 1.2.55, 1.4.18, 1.5.25, 1.6.20.

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