ubuntu · CVE-2016-5637

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-07-15 18:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-11 07:38:23 UTC

View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5637 medium priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (chromium-browser, ffmpeg, gst-libav1.0, oxide-qt, vlc), 120 status rows across 24 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 60, DNE 25, ignored 25, needs-triage 10.

Description:

The restore_tqb_pixels function in libbpg 0.9.5 through 0.9.7 mishandles the transquant_bypass_enable_flag value, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted BPG image, related to a "type confusion" issue.

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