CVE-2019-8383

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

An issue was discovered in AdvanceCOMP through 2.1. An invalid memory address occurs in the function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to a binary. It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact when a victim opens a specially crafted file.

Affected products

advancecomp: through 2.1
Debian Linux: 9.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 30
RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2332
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00034.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J23C6QSTJMQ467KAI6QG54AE4MZRLPQV/
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/invalid-memory-access-in-adv_png_unfilter_8-advancecomp/
https://sourceforge.net/p/advancemame/bugs/272/
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2332
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00034.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J23C6QSTJMQ467KAI6QG54AE4MZRLPQV/
https://research.loginsoft.com/bugs/invalid-memory-access-in-adv_png_unfilter_8-advancecomp/
https://sourceforge.net/p/advancemame/bugs/272/

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