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CVE-2016-3982
Off-by-one error in the bmp_rle4_fread function in pngxrbmp.c in OptiPNG before 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 4.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Off-by-one error in the bmp_rle4_fread function in pngxrbmp.c in OptiPNG before 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read or write access and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.0% · top 9.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- DSA-3546 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- USN-2951-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1078 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201608-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/2/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/57/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2016-4991 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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