Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpng1.6  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-LIBPNG16-336852
  • published11 Jan 2019
  • disclosed11 Jan 2019

Introduced: 11 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6129  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

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 Ubuntu.

png_create_info_struct in png.c in libpng 1.6.36 has a memory leak, as demonstrated by pngcp. NOTE: a third party has stated "I don't think it is libpng's job to free this buffer.