9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-7801

Published: 20/04/2016 Updated: 30/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in OptiPNG 0.6.4 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file.

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OptiPNG could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...
Hans Jerry Illikainen discovered that missing input sanitising in the BMP processing code of the optipng PNG optimiser may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed file is processed For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 064-1+deb7u2 This update also fixes CVE-2015-78 ...