CVE-2014-9495 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Libpng

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer OverflowCWE-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow14 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
3.5%
top 12.40%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
Debian Libpng1.6Debian Texlive-binApple MAC OS X+3 more
Timeline
PublishedJan 10
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the png_combine_row function in libpng before 1.5.21 and 1.6.x before 1.6.16, when running on 64-bit systems, might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a "very wide interlaced" PNG image.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages6 packages

▶debiandebian/libpng1.6< libpng1.6 1.6.16-1 (bookworm)
▶NVDlibpng/libpng1.5.20+16
▶debiandebian/texlive-bin< libpng1.6 1.6.16-1 (bookworm)
▶NVDapple/mac_os_x10.11.3
▶NVDoracle/solaris11.2

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-wpr3-pfv2-chjq: Heap-based buffer overflow in the png_combine_row function in libpng before 1↗2022-05-17
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GHSA
GHSA-5gg5-9r5r-wpgh: Buffer overflow in the png_read_IDAT_data function in pngrutil↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-0973: Buffer overflow in the png_read_IDAT_data function in pngrutil↗2015-01-18
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OSV
CVE-2014-9495: Heap-based buffer overflow in the png_combine_row function in libpng before 1↗2015-01-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Debian
CVE-2015-0973: libpng1.6 - Buffer overflow in the png_read_IDAT_data function in pngrutil.c in libpng befor...↗2015
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Red Hat
libpng: Heap-buffer overflow png_combine_row() with very wide interlaced images↗2014-12-22
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Red Hat
libpng: buffer overflow in png_combine_row↗2014-12-22
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Debian
CVE-2014-9495: libpng1.6 - Heap-based buffer overflow in the png_combine_row function in libpng before 1.5....↗2014
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Apple
CVE-2014-9495: OS X El Capitan v10.11.4 and Security Update 2016-002↗
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9495 libpng: buffer overflow in png_combine_row↗2015-01-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9495 libpng15: libpng: buffer overflow in png_combine_row [fedora-all]↗2015-01-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-9495 libpng: buffer overflow in png_combine_row [fedora-all]↗2015-01-06
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