USN-3712-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10087)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2018-07-11 14:14 – Updated: 2026-06-01 07:03 – Source website
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Summary
libpng, libpng1.6 vulnerabilities
Details

Patrick Keshishian discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain PNG files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10087)

Thuan Pham discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain PNG files. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-13785)

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  "modified": "2026-06-01T07:03:48Z",
  "published": "2018-07-11T14:14:21Z",
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