CVE-2015-8126

high
Published 2015-11-13 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) png_set_PLTE and (2) png_get_PLTE functions in libpng before 1.0.64, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.54, 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.17, 1.5.x before 1.5.24, and 1.6.x before 1.6.19 allow 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
suse suse11affected
suse suse12affected
fedora fedora21affected
fedora fedora22affected
fedora fedora23affected
macos macosaffected10.11.4
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
redhat rhel6.7affected
redhat rhel7.2affected
redhat rhel7.3affected
redhat rhel7.4affected
redhat rhel7.5affected
redhat rhel7.6affected
redhat rhel7.7affected
redhat rhel5.0not-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libpnglibpng{"endExcluding":"1.0.64"}1.0.64
redhat redhatsatellite5.7
redhat redhatsatellite5.6
oracle oraclejdk1.6.0
oracle oraclejdk1.7.0
oracle oraclejdk1.8.0
oracle oraclejre1.6.0
oracle oraclejre1.7.0
oracle oraclejre1.8.0

References

CWEs

CWE-120

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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