CVE-2016-3982

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Off-by-one error in the bmp_rle4_fread 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, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/2/Issue Tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201608-01
https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/57/Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/2/Issue Tracking
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201608-01
https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/57/Patch, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 13, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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