GHSA-5gg5-9r5r-wpgh

GHSA-5gg5-9r5r-wpgh PUBLISHED CVSS 8.800000190734863 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022

Buffer overflow in the png_read_IDAT_data function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.5.21 and 1.6.x before 1.6.16 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via IDAT data with a large width, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-9495.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

8.800000190734863

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Timeline

May 17, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://support.apple.com/HT206167 url
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html url
http://sourceforge.net/p/png-mng/mailman/message/33173461 url
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/10/3 url
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html url
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240719-0005 url
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/10/1 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0973 advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/62725 url
http://tfpwn.com/files/libpng_heap_overflow_1.6.15.txt url

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