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.)
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00004.html
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://sourceforge.net/p/advancemame/bugs/277/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R56LVWC7KUNXFRKQB3Y5NX2YHFJKYZB4/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3936-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3936-2/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00034.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0043
EPSS Percentile
62.9%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-190
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (9)
advancemame/advancecomp
2.1
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux
19.04
debian/debian_linux
8.0
debian/debian_linux
9.0
fedoraproject/fedora
30
Published
Feb 27, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026