CVE-2015-8472

Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.11.3
pnggroup libpng: 1.0.64, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4 (+107)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174905.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174936.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175073.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00038.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00041.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00042.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00043.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00044.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00045.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00047.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00048.html

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