VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7700

critical
Published 2017-08-31 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Double-free vulnerability in the sPLT chunk structure and png.c in pngcrush before 1.7.87 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.8.13-0.1
sid Fixed 1.8.13-0.1
forky Fixed 1.8.13-0.1
bullseye Fixed 1.8.13-0.1
bookworm Fixed 1.8.13-0.1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pngcrush_projectpngcrush{"endIncluding":"1.7.86"}

References

CWEs

CWE-415

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.