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CVE-2018-14550

Published: 10 July 2019

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
the pnm2png binary isn't shipped in Ubuntu

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
libpng
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

trusty Not vulnerable
(code not compiled)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not compiled)
bionic Does not exist

libpng1.6
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

xenial Not vulnerable
(code not compiled)
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not compiled)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H