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CVE-2019-9210 json

In AdvanceCOMP 2.1, png_compress in pngex.cc in advpng has an integer overflow upon encountering an invalid PNG size, which results in an a…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-18586

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In AdvanceCOMP 2.1, png_compress in pngex.cc in advpng has an integer overflow upon encountering an invalid PNG size, which results in an attempted memcpy to write into a buffer that is too small. (There is also a heap-based buffer over-read.)

Patch / fix

  • advancecomp Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9210

  • advancecomp Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.18-1ubuntu0.2
  • advancecomp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.20-1ubuntu0.2
  • advancecomp Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2.1-1ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9210

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • advancecomp RHEL 7 1.15-22.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:1037

  • advancecomp Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +10 more 2.1-r2

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-9210

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • advancecomp CBL-Mariner 2.0 2.1-14

azure linux advisories AZL-6303AZL-7167

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-9210 updated cvss 5.3

advancecomp: integer overflow in png_compress in pngex.cc

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) advancecomp 1.15-22.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) advancecomp 1.15-22.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1037

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/p/advancemame/bugs/277/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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