CVE-2018-14048 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libpng1.6 Open this link in a new tab
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.21% (59th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1810-LIBPNG16-296443
- published 13 Jul 2018
- disclosed 13 Jul 2018
Introduced: 13 Jul 2018
CVE-2018-14048 Open this link in a new tabAmendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpng1.6 package and not the libpng1.6 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
An issue has been found in libpng 1.6.34. It is a SEGV in the function png_free_data in png.c, related to the recommended error handling for png_read_image.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-14048
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/30
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14048
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14048
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-02
- https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpng
- https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/238
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152561/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libpng-Updates.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html