CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3981
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the bmp_read_rows function in pngxrbmp.c in OptiPNG before 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write access and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file.
Affected configurations
• optipng project optipng (<= 0.7.5)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 15.10
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/1/ Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201608-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/56/ Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/1/ Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201608-01 security.gentoo.org
- https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/56/ Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory