UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10087

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10087

    Published: 30 Jan 2017Last Modified: 18 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-10087

    Summary:

    Details: The png_set_text_2 function in libpng 0.71 before 1.0.67, 1.2.x before 1.2.57, 1.4.x before 1.4.20, 1.5.x before 1.5.28, and 1.6.x before 1.6.27 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a NULL pointer dereference vectors involving loading a text chunk into a png structure, removing the text, and then adding another text chunk to the structure.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10087, https://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/243d4e5f3fe71740d52a53cf3dd77cc83a3430ba, https://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/812768d7a9c973452222d454634496b25ed415eb, https://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/794a15fad6add4d636369d0b46f603a02995b2e2/, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/30/4, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3712-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3712-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10087, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8639-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libpng

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libpng?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.3

    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
    1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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