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Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpng Open this link in a new tab

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.11% (44th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBPNG-336860
  • published 11 Jan 2019
  • disclosed 11 Jan 2019
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Introduced: 11 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6129 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-401 Open this link in a new tab

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpng package and not the libpng package as distributed by Ubuntu.

png_create_info_struct in png.c in libpng 1.6.36 has a memory leak, as demonstrated by pngcp. NOTE: a third party has stated "I don't think it is libpng's job to free this buffer.