CVE-2015-8472 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8472?

CVE-2015-8472 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 21 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the png_set_PLTE function in libpng before 1.0.65, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.55, 1.3.x, 1.4.x before 1.4.18, 1.5.x before 1.5.25, and 1.6.x before 1.6.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk in a PNG image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8126.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8472?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Libpng Libpng.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8472?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-8472 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8472 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-44394, DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8472, GHSA-h5hh-r95x-mmfq, MGASA-2015-0473, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8472.