CVE-2015-8472

CVE Details

Release Date:

2015-11-12

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.

See more information about CVE-2015-8472 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.1	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (libpng)	ELSA-2015-2594	2015-12-09
Oracle Linux version 7 (libpng)	ELSA-2015-2596	2015-12-09
Oracle Linux version 7 (libpng12)	ELSA-2015-2595	2015-12-09
Oracle VM version 3.3 (libpng)	OVMSA-2015-0153	2015-12-09
Oracle VM version 3.4 (libpng)	OVMSA-2015-0153	2015-12-09

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