CVE-2015-7700 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Double-free vulnerability in the sPLT chunk structure and png.c in pngcrush before 1.7.87 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Published: 2017-08-31

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:pngcrush_project:pngcrush:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-7601	Double-free vulnerability in the sPLT chunk structure and png.c in pngcrush before 1.7.87 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.
Ubuntu USN	USN-5236-1	pngcrush vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00688.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/changelog.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7700
https://sourceforge.net/p/pmt/news/2015/10/pngcrush-1787-released/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7700

History

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Subscriptions

Pngcrush Project Pngcrush

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-31T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:58:59.660Z

Reserved: 2015-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-7700

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-31T22:29:00.437

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2015-7700

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-08-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-7700 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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