ubuntu · CVE-2016-2191

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:56:56 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2191 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (optipng), 4 status rows across 4 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily): released 4.

Description:

The bmp_read_rows function in pngxtern/pngxrbmp.c in OptiPNG before 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory write and crash) via a series of delta escapes in a crafted BMP image.

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