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Java CPU October 2018 Java SE, Java SE Embedded vulnerability (CVE-2018-13785)

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Java CPU October 2018 Java SE, Java SE Embedded vulnerability (CVE-2018-13785)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/09/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/18/2018
Modified
07/21/2021

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(s)

  • jre-upgrade-latest

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