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Out-of-bounds Write

CVE-2018-14550

High
8.8/10

Summary

An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng prior to 1.6.37. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-787 - Out-of-Bounds Write

Out-of-bounds write vulnerability is a memory access bug that allows software to write data past the end or before the beginning of the intended buffer. This may result in the corruption of data, a crash, or arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published