NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libpng Open this link in a new tab package, versions >=0.7.1, <1.6.18
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-COCOAPODS-LIBPNG-472419
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published
2 Oct 2019
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disclosed
26 Dec 2016
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 26 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-10087 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade libpng to version 1.6.18 or higher.
Overview
libpng is a Portable Network Graphics support library
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. The vulnerability has existed in libpng since version 0.71. To be vulnerable, an application has to load a text chunk into the png structure, then delete all text, then add another text chunk to the same png structure.