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SUSE: CVE-2015-0973: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/18/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/18/2015
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

Buffer overflow in the png_read_IDAT_data function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.5.21 and 1.6.x before 1.6.16 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via IDAT data with a large width, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-9495.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-0
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng16-16
  • suse-upgrade-libpng16-16-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng16-compat-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng16-devel

References

  • SUSE-SU-2015:0092-1
  • APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-5
  • CVE-2015-0973

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