CVE-2018-14550

Publication date 10 July 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libpng 18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
libpng1.6 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes


mdeslaur

the pnm2png binary isn't shipped in Ubuntu

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

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


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