CVE-2015-0973

Publication date 18 January 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Buffer overflow in the png_read_IDAT_data function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.5.21 and 1.6.x before 1.6.16 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via IDAT data with a large width, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-9495.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libpng	14.10 utopic	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected
texlive-bin	14.10 utopic	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

only affects libpng 1.5 and 1.6 texlive-bin has libpng 1.2 or uses system libpng

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H