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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-14550

An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png.

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CVE-2018-14550

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Jul 2019, 12:15 UTC

An issue has been found in third-party PNM decoding associated with libpng 1.6.35. It is a stack-based buffer overflow in the function get_token in pnm2png.c in pnm2png.

osv:CVE-2018-14550
Complete source record
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