CVE-2018-14550
HIGH8.8EPSS 1.8%Out-of-bounds write in libpng
Published: 3/22/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/libpngfrom 0, < 1.6.37-r0
- Debian/libpng1.6from 0, < 1.6.37-1
- NuGet/libpngfrom 0, < 1.6.37
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14550
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-14550
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14550
- PATCHhttps://github.com/glennrp/libpng
- WEBhttps://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpng#stack-buffer-overflow-in-png2pnm-in-function-get_token
- WEBhttps://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/246
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-02
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0001
- WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-UPSTREAM-LIBPNG-1043612
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html