CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-14047
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
An issue has been found in PNGwriter 0.7.0. It is a SEGV in pngwriter::readfromfile in pngwriter.cc. NOTE: there is a "Warning: PNGwriter was never designed for reading untrusted files with it. Do NOT use this in sensitive environments, especially DO NOT read PNGs from unknown sources with it!" statement in the master/README.md file
Affected configurations
• pngwriter project pngwriter 0.7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/pngwriter Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pngwriter/pngwriter/issues/129 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/pngwriter Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/pngwriter/pngwriter/issues/129 Exploit, Third Party Advisory