vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-13785: libpng1.6 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 9, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-libpng1-6
Title
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