VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-10087

high
Published 2017-01-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The png_set_text_2 function in libpng 0.71 before 1.0.67, 1.2.x before 1.2.57, 1.4.x before 1.4.20, 1.5.x before 1.5.28, and 1.6.x before 1.6.27 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a NULL pointer dereference vectors involving loading a text chunk into a png structure, removing the text, and then adding another text chunk to the structure.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed1.6.27-1
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6.27-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.6.27-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.6.27-1
debian debiansidfixed1.6.27-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.6.27-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libpnglibpng0.8
libpnglibpng0.71
libpnglibpng0.81
libpnglibpng0.82
libpnglibpng0.85
libpnglibpng0.86
libpnglibpng0.87
libpnglibpng0.88
libpnglibpng0.89
libpnglibpng0.89c
libpnglibpng0.90
libpnglibpng0.95
libpnglibpng0.96
libpnglibpng0.97
libpnglibpng0.98
libpnglibpng0.99
libpnglibpng0.99a
libpnglibpng0.99b
libpnglibpng0.99c
libpnglibpng0.99d
libpnglibpng0.99e
libpnglibpng0.99f
libpnglibpng0.99g
libpnglibpng0.99h
libpnglibpng1.00
libpnglibpng1.0.0
libpnglibpng1.0.0a
libpnglibpng1.0.0b
libpnglibpng1.0.1
libpnglibpng1.0.1a
libpnglibpng1.0.1b
libpnglibpng1.0.1c
libpnglibpng1.0.1d
libpnglibpng1.0.1e
libpnglibpng1.0.2
libpnglibpng1.0.2a
libpnglibpng1.0.3
libpnglibpng1.0.3a
libpnglibpng1.0.3b
libpnglibpng1.0.3d
libpnglibpng1.0.4
libpnglibpng1.0.4a
libpnglibpng1.0.4b
libpnglibpng1.0.4c
libpnglibpng1.0.4d
libpnglibpng1.0.4e
libpnglibpng1.0.4f
libpnglibpng1.0.5
libpnglibpng1.0.5a
libpnglibpng1.0.5b
libpnglibpng1.0.5c
libpnglibpng1.0.5d
libpnglibpng1.0.5e
libpnglibpng1.0.5f
libpnglibpng1.0.5g
libpnglibpng1.0.5h
libpnglibpng1.0.5i
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libpnglibpng1.0.5k
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libpnglibpng1.0.5m
libpnglibpng1.0.5n
libpnglibpng1.0.5o
libpnglibpng1.0.5p
libpnglibpng1.0.5q
libpnglibpng1.0.5r
libpnglibpng1.0.5s
libpnglibpng1.0.5t
libpnglibpng1.0.5u
libpnglibpng1.0.5v
libpnglibpng1.0.6
libpnglibpng1.0.6d
libpnglibpng1.0.6e
libpnglibpng1.0.6f
libpnglibpng1.0.6g
libpnglibpng1.0.6h
libpnglibpng1.0.6i
libpnglibpng1.0.6j
libpnglibpng1.0.7
libpnglibpng1.0.8
libpnglibpng1.0.9
libpnglibpng1.0.10
libpnglibpng1.0.11
libpnglibpng1.0.12
libpnglibpng1.0.13
libpnglibpng1.0.14
libpnglibpng1.0.15
libpnglibpng1.0.16
libpnglibpng1.0.17
libpnglibpng1.0.18
libpnglibpng1.0.19
libpnglibpng1.0.20
libpnglibpng1.0.21
libpnglibpng1.0.22
libpnglibpng1.0.23
libpnglibpng1.0.24
libpnglibpng1.0.25
libpnglibpng1.0.26
libpnglibpng1.0.27
libpnglibpng1.0.28
libpnglibpng1.0.29
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libpnglibpng1.0.31
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libpnglibpng1.0.45
libpnglibpng1.0.46
libpnglibpng1.0.47
libpnglibpng1.0.48
libpnglibpng1.0.50
libpnglibpng1.0.51
libpnglibpng1.0.52
libpnglibpng1.0.53
libpnglibpng1.0.54
libpnglibpng1.0.55
libpnglibpng1.0.56
libpnglibpng1.0.57
libpnglibpng1.0.58
libpnglibpng1.0.59
libpnglibpng1.0.60
libpnglibpng1.0.61
libpnglibpng1.0.62
libpnglibpng1.0.63
libpnglibpng1.0.64
libpnglibpng1.0.65
libpnglibpng1.0.66
libpnglibpng1.2.0
libpnglibpng1.2.1
libpnglibpng1.2.3
libpnglibpng1.2.4
libpnglibpng1.2.6
libpnglibpng1.2.8
libpnglibpng1.2.10
libpnglibpng1.2.12
libpnglibpng1.2.13
libpnglibpng1.2.14
libpnglibpng1.2.16
libpnglibpng1.2.18
libpnglibpng1.2.20
libpnglibpng1.2.21
libpnglibpng1.2.22
libpnglibpng1.2.24
libpnglibpng1.2.25
libpnglibpng1.2.26
libpnglibpng1.2.27
libpnglibpng1.2.29
libpnglibpng1.2.32
libpnglibpng1.2.33
libpnglibpng1.2.35
libpnglibpng1.2.37
libpnglibpng1.2.38
libpnglibpng1.2.39
libpnglibpng1.2.41
libpnglibpng1.2.42
libpnglibpng1.2.44
libpnglibpng1.2.45
libpnglibpng1.2.46
libpnglibpng1.2.47
libpnglibpng1.2.50
libpnglibpng1.2.51
libpnglibpng1.2.52
libpnglibpng1.2.53
libpnglibpng1.2.54
libpnglibpng1.2.55
libpnglibpng1.2.56
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
libpnglibpng1.4.18
libpnglibpng1.4.19
libpnglibpng1.5.0
libpnglibpng1.5.1
libpnglibpng1.5.2
libpnglibpng1.5.3
libpnglibpng1.5.4

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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

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