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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-9210): AdvanceCOMP vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-9210): AdvanceCOMP vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/27/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/10/2019
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

In AdvanceCOMP 2.1, png_compress in pngex.cc in advpng has an integer overflow upon encountering an invalid PNG size, which results in an attempted memcpy to write into a buffer that is too small. (There is also a heap-based buffer over-read.)

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-advancecomp

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