VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7981

medium
Published 2015-11-24 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The png_convert_to_rfc1123 function in png.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.64, 1.2.x before 1.2.54, and 1.4.x before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information via crafted tIME chunk data in an image file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —
redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected —
6.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.10 Affected —
15.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libpnglibpng1.2.15
libpnglibpng1.2.16
libpnglibpng1.2.17
libpnglibpng1.2.18
libpnglibpng1.2.19
libpnglibpng1.2.20
libpnglibpng1.0.0
libpnglibpng1.0.1
libpnglibpng1.0.2
libpnglibpng1.0.3
libpnglibpng1.0.5
libpnglibpng1.0.6
libpnglibpng1.0.7
libpnglibpng1.0.8
libpnglibpng1.0.9
libpnglibpng1.0.10
libpnglibpng1.0.11
libpnglibpng1.0.12
libpnglibpng1.0.13
libpnglibpng1.0.14
libpnglibpng1.0.15
libpnglibpng1.0.16
libpnglibpng1.0.17
libpnglibpng1.0.18
libpnglibpng1.0.19
libpnglibpng1.0.20
libpnglibpng1.0.21
libpnglibpng1.0.22
libpnglibpng1.0.23
libpnglibpng1.0.24
libpnglibpng1.0.25
libpnglibpng1.0.26
libpnglibpng1.0.27
libpnglibpng1.0.28
libpnglibpng1.0.29
libpnglibpng1.0.30
libpnglibpng1.0.31
libpnglibpng1.0.32
libpnglibpng1.0.33
libpnglibpng1.0.34
libpnglibpng1.0.35
libpnglibpng1.0.37
libpnglibpng1.0.38
libpnglibpng1.0.39
libpnglibpng1.0.40
libpnglibpng1.0.41
libpnglibpng1.0.42
libpnglibpng1.0.43
libpnglibpng1.0.44
libpnglibpng1.0.45
libpnglibpng1.0.46
libpnglibpng1.0.47
libpnglibpng1.0.48
libpnglibpng1.0.50
libpnglibpng1.0.51
libpnglibpng1.0.52
libpnglibpng1.0.53
libpnglibpng1.0.54
libpnglibpng1.0.55
libpnglibpng1.0.56
libpnglibpng1.0.57
libpnglibpng1.0.58
libpnglibpng1.0.59
libpnglibpng1.0.60
libpnglibpng1.0.61
libpnglibpng1.0.62
libpnglibpng1.0.63
libpnglibpng1.2.0
libpnglibpng1.2.1
libpnglibpng1.2.2
libpnglibpng1.2.3
libpnglibpng1.2.4
libpnglibpng1.2.5
libpnglibpng1.2.6
libpnglibpng1.2.7
libpnglibpng1.2.8
libpnglibpng1.2.9
libpnglibpng1.2.10
libpnglibpng1.2.11
libpnglibpng1.2.12
libpnglibpng1.2.13
libpnglibpng1.2.14
libpnglibpng1.2.21
libpnglibpng1.2.22
libpnglibpng1.2.23
libpnglibpng1.2.24
libpnglibpng1.2.25
libpnglibpng1.2.26
libpnglibpng1.2.27
libpnglibpng1.2.28
libpnglibpng1.2.29
libpnglibpng1.2.30
libpnglibpng1.2.31
libpnglibpng1.2.32
libpnglibpng1.2.33
libpnglibpng1.2.34
libpnglibpng1.2.35
libpnglibpng1.2.36
libpnglibpng1.2.37
libpnglibpng1.2.38
libpnglibpng1.2.39
libpnglibpng1.2.40
libpnglibpng1.2.41
libpnglibpng1.2.42
libpnglibpng1.2.43
libpnglibpng1.2.44
libpnglibpng1.2.45
libpnglibpng1.2.46
libpnglibpng1.2.47
libpnglibpng1.2.48
libpnglibpng1.2.49
libpnglibpng1.2.50
libpnglibpng1.2.51
libpnglibpng1.2.52
libpnglibpng1.2.53
libpnglibpng1.4.0
libpnglibpng1.4.1
libpnglibpng1.4.2
libpnglibpng1.4.3
libpnglibpng1.4.4
libpnglibpng1.4.5
libpnglibpng1.4.6
libpnglibpng1.4.7
libpnglibpng1.4.8
libpnglibpng1.4.9
libpnglibpng1.4.10
libpnglibpng1.4.11
libpnglibpng1.4.12
libpnglibpng1.4.13
libpnglibpng1.4.14
libpnglibpng1.4.15
libpnglibpng1.4.16

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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