CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-0973

8.8 HIGH Published 2015-01-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-01-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in the png_read_IDAT_data function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.5.21 and 1.6.x before 1.6.16 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via IDAT data with a large width, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-9495.

Affected configurations

• oracle solaris 11.2 • libpng libpng (<= 1.5.20) • libpng libpng 1.6.0 • libpng libpng 1.6.1 • libpng libpng 1.6.2 • libpng libpng 1.6.3 • libpng libpng 1.6.4 • libpng libpng 1.6.5 • libpng libpng 1.6.6 • libpng libpng 1.6.7 • libpng libpng 1.6.8 • libpng libpng 1.6.9 • libpng libpng 1.6.10 • libpng libpng 1.6.11 • libpng libpng 1.6.12 • libpng libpng 1.6.13 • libpng libpng 1.6.14 • libpng libpng 1.6.15 • apple mac os x (<= 10.11.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness

References