Information Exposure Affecting libpng package, versions [,1.0.64)[1.2.0,1.2.54)[1.4.0,1.4.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.23% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBPNG-2334980
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7981  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libpng to version 1.0.64, 1.2.54, 1.4.17 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The png_convert_to_rfc1123 function in png.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.64, 1.2.x before 1.2.54, and 1.4.x before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information via crafted tIME chunk data in an image file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

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