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CVE-2018-14048

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An issue has been found in libpng 1.6.34. It is a SEGV in the function png_free_data in png.c, related to the recommended error handling for png_read_image.

Affected products

• pnggroup libpng: 1.6.34
• Oracle Java SE: 1.6.0-update201, 1.7.0-update191, 1.8.0-update181, 11.0.0
• Oracle Java SE: 1.6.0-update201, 1.7.0-update191, 1.8.0-update181, 11.0.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152561/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libpng-Updates.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
• https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpng
• https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/238
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/30
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-02
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152561/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libpng-Updates.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
• https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpng
• https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/238
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/30
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-02

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