VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2018-13785

medium
Published 2018-07-09 · Modified 2026-05-29
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

In libpng 1.6.34, a wrong calculation of row_factor in the png_check_chunk_length function (pngrutil.c) may trigger an integer overflow and resultant divide-by-zero while processing a crafted PNG file, leading to a denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
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
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6.34-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.6.34-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.6.34-2
debian debiansidfixed1.6.34-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.6.34-2
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu17.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu18.04affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libpnglibpng1.6.34
oracle oraclejdk1.6.0
oracle oraclejdk1.7.0
oracle oraclejdk1.8.0
oracle oraclejdk11.0.0
oracle oraclejre1.6.0
oracle oraclejre1.7.0
oracle oraclejre1.8.0
oracle oraclejre11.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-190 CWE-369

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

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