Homepage
About Snyk

Out-of-bounds Read Affecting libpng package, versions <2:1.5.13-8.amzn2.0.1

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 2.24% (90th percentile)
Expand this section
NVD
8.8 high
Expand this section
Red Hat
8.8 high

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-LIBPNG-3244078
  • published 21 Jan 2023
  • disclosed 14 Apr 2016
Report a new vulnerability Found a mistake?

Introduced: 14 Apr 2016

CVE-2015-8540 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libpng to version 2:1.5.13-8.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-1904.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpng package and not the libpng package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

Integer underflow in the png_check_keyword function in pngwutil.c in libpng 0.90 through 0.99, 1.0.x before 1.0.66, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.56, 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.19, and 1.5.x before 1.5.26 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a space character as a keyword in a PNG image, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

References