Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libpng package, versions <1.6.37-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.51% (77th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE38-LIBPNG-453732
- published 16 Aug 2018
- disclosed 10 Jul 2019
Introduced: 16 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-14550 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.8 libpng to version 1.6.37-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpng package and not the libpng package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.8 relevant fixed versions and status.
An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14550
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14550
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-02
- https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpng#stack-buffer-overflow-in-png2pnm-in-function-get_token
- https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/246
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0001/