CVE-2016-10087

2017-01-3000:00:00

ubuntu.com

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.011 Low

EPSS

Percentile

84.3%

JSON

The png_set_text_2 function in libpng 0.71 before 1.0.67, 1.2.x before
1.2.57, 1.4.x before 1.4.20, 1.5.x before 1.5.28, and 1.6.x before 1.6.27
allows context-dependent attackers to cause a NULL pointer dereference
vectors involving loading a text chunk into a png structure, removing the
text, and then adding another text chunk to the structure.

Bugs

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849799>

Notes

Author	Note
ratliff	“has existed in libpng since version 0.71 of June 26, 1995”
chrisccoulson	Looks like this code is #ifdef’d out of Firefox and Thunderbirdhidden because it’s behind a PNG_TEXT_SUPPORTED define, which isn’t enabled

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu14.04noarchlibpng< 1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchlibpng< 1.2.54-1ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchlibpng1.6< anyUNKNOWN