Out-of-Bounds Affecting amadvance/advancecomp package, versions [,2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-AMADVANCEADVANCECOMP-2366347
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Feb 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-8383  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade amadvance/advancecomp to version 2.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. An issue was discovered in AdvanceCOMP through 2.1. An invalid memory address occurs in the function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to a binary. It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact when a victim opens a specially crafted file.

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