UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8472

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8472

    Published: 9 Dec 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8472
    Aliases:
    USN-2861-1

    Summary:

    Details: Buffer overflow in the png_set_PLTE function in libpng before 1.0.65, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.55, 1.3.x, 1.4.x before 1.4.18, 1.5.x before 1.5.25, and 1.6.x before 1.6.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk in a PNG image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8126.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8472, https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=144929077710907&w=2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2861-1, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1224244#c0, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8472

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libpng

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2

    Affected versions

    1.2.49-4ubuntu1
    1.2.49-5ubuntu1
    1.2.50-1ubuntu1
    1.2.50-1ubuntu2
    1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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