| Name | CVE-2015-8472 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-375-1, DLA-410-1, DSA-3443-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 807112 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| libpng (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.2.50-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
| libpng1.6 (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.6.28-1+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster | 1.6.36-6 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 1.6.37-3 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1.6.39-2 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1.6.44-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libpng | source | squeeze | 1.2.44-1+squeeze6 | DLA-375-1 | ||
| libpng | source | wheezy | 1.2.49-1+deb7u2 | DSA-3443-1 | ||
| libpng | source | jessie | 1.2.50-2+deb8u2 | DSA-3443-1 | ||
| libpng | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | 807112 | ||
| libpng1.6 | source | (unstable) | 1.6.20-1 | 807112 | ||
| openjdk-6 | source | squeeze | 6b38-1.13.10-1~deb6u1 | DLA-410-1 |
Fixed in 1.6.20, 1.5.25, 1.4.18, 1.2.55, and 1.0.65
https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/commit/7e1ca9ceba4e64259863efdd98bab9b55bdc0b9c
https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/commit/4488a96126bbefda51d07835411d8e847a88b2b7
https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/commit/ad224c6907e8a274f2679eae4c2e3085fdc7e8c8