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CVE-2015-8472

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
21/01/2016
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.30 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x
7.30
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 10.11.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.0.64:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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