Medium
Security advisory
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
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-14047
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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
osv:CVE-2018-14047
Complete source record
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"summary": "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",
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"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"published_at": "2018-07-13T16:29:00.33+00:00"
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