CVE-2015-8540 (GCVE-0-2015-8540)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-14 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
VLAI?
Summary
Integer underflow in the png_check_keyword function in pngwutil.c in libpng 0.90 through 0.99, 1.0.x before 1.0.66, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.56, 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.19, and 1.5.x before 1.5.26 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a space character as a keyword in a PNG image, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.
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