CVE-2014-9495 (GCVE-0-2014-9495)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-01-10 19:00
Modified
2025-06-09 15:16
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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.
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