CVE-2015-8126

high
Published 2015-11-13 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) png_set_PLTE and (2) png_get_PLTE functions in libpng before 1.0.64, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.54, 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.17, 1.5.x before 1.5.24, and 1.6.x before 1.6.19 allow 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.

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 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
9.0 Affected โ€”
8.0 Affected โ€”
7.0 Affected โ€”
fedora Fedora Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
23 Affected โ€”
22 Affected โ€”
21 Affected โ€”
macos macOS Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected 10.11.4
suse SUSE Affected 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected โ€”
13.2 Affected โ€”
13.1 Affected โ€”
12 Affected โ€”
11 Affected โ€”
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ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.10 Affected โ€”
15.04 Affected โ€”
14.04 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”
redhat Red Hat Mixed 10 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.7 Affected โ€”
7.6 Affected โ€”
7.5 Affected โ€”
7.4 Affected โ€”
7.3 Affected โ€”
7.2 Affected โ€”
7.0 Affected โ€”
6.7 Affected โ€”
6.0 Affected โ€”
5.0 Not affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libpnglibpng{"endExcluding":"1.0.64"}1.0.64
redhat redhatsatellite5.7
redhat redhatsatellite5.6
oracle oraclejdk1.6.0
oracle oraclejdk1.7.0
oracle oraclejdk1.8.0
oracle oraclejre1.6.0
oracle oraclejre1.7.0
oracle oraclejre1.8.0

References

CWEs

CWE-120

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

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