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CVE-2015-7981
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2015-11-24 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-200
Description
The png_convert_to_rfc1123 function in png.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.64, 1.2.x before 1.2.54, and 1.4.x before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information via crafted tIME chunk data in an image file, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
- Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
- pnggroup libpng: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 (+134)
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0, 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 7.0, 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: 7.2
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0, 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.2
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.2, 6.7.z
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0, 6.0
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172620.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172647.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/172663.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00033.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00160.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2594.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2595.html
- http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/bugs/241/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng10/1.0.64/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng12/1.2.54/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng14/1.4.17/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3399
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