CVE-2014-9495 (GCVE-0-2014-9495)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-01-10 19:00 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:16
VLAI?
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the png_combine_row function in libpng before 1.5.21 and 1.6.x before 1.6.16, when running on 64-bit systems, might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a "very wide interlaced" PNG image.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public ?
2014-12-22 00:00
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