VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2018-13785

medium
Published 2018-07-09 · Modified 2026-05-29
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

In libpng 1.6.34, a wrong calculation of row_factor in the png_check_chunk_length function (pngrutil.c) may trigger an integer overflow and resultant divide-by-zero while processing a crafted PNG file, leading to a denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
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
18.04 Affected —
17.10 Affected —
16.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.6.34-2
sid Fixed 1.6.34-2
forky Fixed 1.6.34-2
bullseye Fixed 1.6.34-2
bookworm Fixed 1.6.34-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libpnglibpng1.6.34
oracle oraclejdk1.6.0
oracle oraclejdk1.7.0
oracle oraclejdk1.8.0
oracle oraclejdk11.0.0
oracle oraclejre1.6.0
oracle oraclejre1.7.0
oracle oraclejre1.8.0
oracle oraclejre11.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-190 CWE-369

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

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