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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-8126: Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-8126: Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/12/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/29/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-libpng
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-client-chromium

References

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