USN-3962-1

It was discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted PNG file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libpng to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / libpng1.6

Package

Name: libpng1.6
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libpng1.6@1.6.34-1ubuntu0.18.04.2?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.6.34-1ubuntu0.18.04.2

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.34-1

1.6.34-1ubuntu0.18.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.34-1ubuntu0.18.04.2",
            "binary_name": "libpng-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.34-1ubuntu0.18.04.2",
            "binary_name": "libpng-tools"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.34-1ubuntu0.18.04.2",
            "binary_name": "libpng16-16"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3962-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2019-7317",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS"
}