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CVE-2016-10087

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

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.

Affected products

• pnggroup libpng: 0.8, 0.71, 0.81, 0.82, 0.85, 0.86 (+244)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/29/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/30/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95157
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-74
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3712-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3712-2/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/29/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/30/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95157
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

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