VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8472

high
Published 2016-01-21 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6.20-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.6.20-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.6.20-1
debian debiansidfixed1.6.20-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.6.20-1
macos macosaffected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libpnglibpng1.2.51
libpnglibpng1.0.64
libpnglibpng1.2.0
libpnglibpng1.2.1
libpnglibpng1.2.2
libpnglibpng1.2.3
libpnglibpng1.2.4
libpnglibpng1.2.10
libpnglibpng1.2.11
libpnglibpng1.2.12
libpnglibpng1.2.13
libpnglibpng1.2.14
libpnglibpng1.2.15
libpnglibpng1.2.16
libpnglibpng1.2.17
libpnglibpng1.2.18
libpnglibpng1.2.19
libpnglibpng1.2.20
libpnglibpng1.2.21
libpnglibpng1.2.22
libpnglibpng1.2.23
libpnglibpng1.2.24
libpnglibpng1.2.25
libpnglibpng1.2.26
libpnglibpng1.2.27
libpnglibpng1.2.28
libpnglibpng1.2.29
libpnglibpng1.2.30
libpnglibpng1.2.31
libpnglibpng1.2.32
libpnglibpng1.2.33
libpnglibpng1.2.34
libpnglibpng1.2.35
libpnglibpng1.2.36
libpnglibpng1.2.37
libpnglibpng1.2.38
libpnglibpng1.2.39
libpnglibpng1.2.40
libpnglibpng1.2.41
libpnglibpng1.2.42
libpnglibpng1.2.43
libpnglibpng1.2.44
libpnglibpng1.2.45
libpnglibpng1.2.46
libpnglibpng1.2.47
libpnglibpng1.2.48
libpnglibpng1.2.49
libpnglibpng1.2.50
libpnglibpng1.2.52
libpnglibpng1.2.53
libpnglibpng1.2.54
libpnglibpng1.4.0
libpnglibpng1.4.1
libpnglibpng1.4.2
libpnglibpng1.4.3
libpnglibpng1.4.4
libpnglibpng1.4.5
libpnglibpng1.4.6
libpnglibpng1.4.7
libpnglibpng1.4.8
libpnglibpng1.4.9
libpnglibpng1.4.10
libpnglibpng1.4.11
libpnglibpng1.4.12
libpnglibpng1.4.13
libpnglibpng1.4.14
libpnglibpng1.4.15
libpnglibpng1.4.16
libpnglibpng1.4.17
libpnglibpng1.5.1
libpnglibpng1.5.2
libpnglibpng1.5.3
libpnglibpng1.5.4
libpnglibpng1.5.5
libpnglibpng1.5.6
libpnglibpng1.5.7
libpnglibpng1.5.8
libpnglibpng1.5.9
libpnglibpng1.5.10
libpnglibpng1.5.11
libpnglibpng1.5.12
libpnglibpng1.5.13
libpnglibpng1.5.14
libpnglibpng1.5.15
libpnglibpng1.5.16
libpnglibpng1.5.17
libpnglibpng1.5.18
libpnglibpng1.5.19
libpnglibpng1.5.20
libpnglibpng1.5.21
libpnglibpng1.5.22
libpnglibpng1.5.23
libpnglibpng1.5.24
libpnglibpng1.6.0
libpnglibpng1.6.1
libpnglibpng1.6.2
libpnglibpng1.6.3
libpnglibpng1.6.4
libpnglibpng1.6.5
libpnglibpng1.6.6
libpnglibpng1.6.7
libpnglibpng1.6.8
libpnglibpng1.6.9
libpnglibpng1.6.10
libpnglibpng1.6.11
libpnglibpng1.6.12
libpnglibpng1.6.13
libpnglibpng1.6.14
libpnglibpng1.6.15
libpnglibpng1.6.16
libpnglibpng1.6.17
libpnglibpng1.6.18
libpnglibpng1.6.19

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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