GHSA-8p78-6v29-xw89

GHSA-8p78-6v29-xw89 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published April 29, 2022

libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does not properly calculate certain buffer offsets, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Timeline

Apr 29, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
Apr 29, 2026 Distribution Patch

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vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-8p78-6v29-xw89
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-8p78-6v29-xw89

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  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-8p78-6v29-xw89/fixes/registry"

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References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16914 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0768 advisory
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1943 url
http://secunia.com/advisories/33137 url
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml url
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-536 url

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