CVE-2016-3982

high

Description

Off-by-one error in the bmp_rle4_fread function in pngxrbmp.c in OptiPNG before 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write access and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/57/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201608-01

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.html

http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/2/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-04-13

Updated: 2018-10-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High