CVE-2018-14047

An issue has been found in PNGwriter 0.7.0. It is a SEGV in pngwriter::readfromfile in pngwriter.cc. NOTE: there is a "Warning: PNGwriter was never designed for reading untrusted files with it. Do NOT use this in sensitive environments, especially DO NOT read PNGs from unknown sources with it!" statement in the master/README.md file

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-07-13

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Pngwriter (Pngwriter Project)

References

• https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/pngwriter
• https://github.com/pngwriter/pngwriter/issues/129