CVE-2016-3982

high

Published 2016-04-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Off-by-one error in the bmp_rle4_fread function in pngxrbmp.c in OptiPNG before 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write access and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

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

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
42.1	Affected	—
13.2	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
15.10	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.7.6-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.7.6-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.7.6-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.7.6-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.7.6-1`
8.0	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
optipng_project	optipng	`{"endIncluding":"0.7.5"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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