VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-14048
An issue has been found in libpng 1.6.34.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 3.21%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue has been found in libpng 1.6.34. It is a SEGV in the function png_free_data in png.c, related to the recommended error handling for png_read_image.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.21% probability · 88th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- libpng/libpng · oracle/jdk · oracle/jre
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152561/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libpng-Updates.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.htmlPatch
- https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpngExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/238Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/30Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-02Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152561/Slackware-Security-Advisory-libpng-Updates.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.htmlPatch
- https://github.com/fouzhe/security/tree/master/libpngExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/238Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/30Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-02Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.