GHSA-jqh6-vqxw-fcv3

GHSA-jqh6-vqxw-fcv3 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 14, 2022

The png_do_expand_palette function in libpng before 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via (1) a PLTE chunk of zero bytes or (2) a NULL palette, related to pngrtran.c and pngset.c.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

6.5

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

Timeline

May 14, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory

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