Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libpng1.6 package, versions <1.6.37-1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.36% (73rd
percentile)
Do your applications use this vulnerable package?
In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.
Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBPNG16-528699
- published 16 Aug 2018
- disclosed 10 Jul 2019
Introduced: 16 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-14550 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 libpng1.6 to version 1.6.37-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpng1.6 package and not the libpng1.6 package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14550
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14550
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-02
- https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpng#stack-buffer-overflow-in-png2pnm-in-function-get_token
- https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/246
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0001/
CVSS Scores
version 3.1