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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-14550: libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-14550: libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/10/2019
Created
08/06/2019
Added
08/06/2019
Modified
08/06/2019

Description

An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-libpng

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