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SUSE: CVE-2016-10087: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-10087: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/30/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/30/2017
Modified
08/10/2021

Description

The png_set_text_2 function in libpng 0.71 before 1.0.67, 1.2.x before 1.2.57, 1.4.x before 1.4.20, 1.5.x before 1.5.28, and 1.6.x before 1.6.27 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a NULL pointer dereference vectors involving loading a text chunk into a png structure, removing the text, and then adding another text chunk to the structure.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libpng-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-0
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-0-x86
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-compat-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng12-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng15-15
  • suse-upgrade-libpng16-16
  • suse-upgrade-libpng16-16-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libpng16-compat-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpng16-devel

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