ubuntu · CVE-2016-3981

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-04-13 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:01:51 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-3981 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (optipng), 4 status rows across 4 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily): released 4.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bmp_read_rows function in pngxrbmp.c in OptiPNG before 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write access and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file.

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