{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8472","details":"Buffer overflow in the png_set_PLTE function in libpng before 1.0.65, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.55, 1.3.x, 1.4.x before 1.4.18, 1.5.x before 1.5.25, and 1.6.x before 1.6.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk in a PNG image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8126.","modified":"2026-01-30T02:42:20.324752Z","published":"2015-12-09T00:00:00Z","related":["USN-2861-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2015-8472"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8472"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=144929077710907&w=2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2861-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1224244#c0"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8472"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libpng","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/libpng@1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2"}]}],"versions":["1.2.49-4ubuntu1","1.2.49-5ubuntu1","1.2.50-1ubuntu1","1.2.50-1ubuntu2","1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2","binary_name":"libpng12-0"},{"binary_version":"1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2","binary_name":"libpng12-dev"},{"binary_version":"1.2.50-1ubuntu2.14.04.2","binary_name":"libpng3"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8472.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}