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CVE-2015-8472
HIGH · CVSS 7.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-01-21T15:59:00.117 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:34:37.497

Summary

Buffer overflow in the png_set_PLTE function in libpng before 1.0.65, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.55, 1.3.x, 1.4.x before 1.4.18, 1.5.x before 1.5.25, and 1.6.x before 1.6.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk in a PNG image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8126.

Affected products

apple — mac_os_x

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References

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