Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10087

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-30 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 03:07:32
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.