CVE-2018-14550
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.54% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-07-10 00:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 09:29Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-07-23
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- af1e87f4783a404fa79172a7258367f3e41860283ed7ec9ecf086510cb8d6072
05 Affected products
06 References
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201908-02https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-02
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/246
- github.comhttps://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpng#stack-buffer-overflow-in-png2pnm-in-function-get_token
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221028-0001/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- libpng1.6 Fixed in 1.6.37-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libpng1.6 Fixed in 1.6.37-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libpng1.6 Fixed in 1.6.37-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.