9.3
HIGH CVSS 2.0
CVE-2016-3981
OptiPNG Heap-based Buffer Overflow
Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bmp_read_rows 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.

INFO

Published Date :

April 13, 2016, 4:59 p.m.

Last Modified :

April 12, 2025, 10:46 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2016-3981 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Canonical ubuntu_linux
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Optipng_project optipng
: Total Affected Vendor : 3 | Products : 3
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 HIGH [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 HIGH [email protected]
Solution
Follow the instructions below to mitigate the CVE-2016-3981 vulnerability.
There is no known solution at this time.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2016-3981.

URL Resource
http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/1/ Exploit
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201608-01
https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/56/ Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/1/ Exploit
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1 Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201608-01
https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/56/ Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2016-3981 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2016-3981 weaknesses.

CAPEC-8: Buffer Overflow in an API Call Buffer Overflow in an API Call CAPEC-9: Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities CAPEC-10: Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables CAPEC-14: Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow CAPEC-24: Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow CAPEC-42: MIME Conversion MIME Conversion CAPEC-44: Overflow Binary Resource File Overflow Binary Resource File CAPEC-45: Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links CAPEC-46: Overflow Variables and Tags Overflow Variables and Tags CAPEC-47: Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion CAPEC-100: Overflow Buffers Overflow Buffers CAPEC-123: Buffer Manipulation Buffer Manipulation

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2016-3981 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2016-3981 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/1/
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.html
    Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546
    Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201608-01
    Added Reference https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/56/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 19, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3981.html [Third Party Advisory]
    Removed Reference https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3981 [Third Party Advisory]
    Removed Reference https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973992 [Issue Tracking]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 28, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201608-01 [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 04, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Aug. 04, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:a:optipng_project:optipng:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:optipng_project:optipng:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Changed Reference Type https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/56/ Exploit https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/56/ Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking, Patch
    Changed Reference Type http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/1/ No Types Assigned http://bugs.fi/media/afl/optipng/1/ Exploit
    Changed Reference Type http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1 No Types Assigned http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.html Third Party Advisory, Mailing List
    Changed Reference Type http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 No Types Assigned http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.html Third Party Advisory, Mailing List
    Added Reference https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3981.html
    Added Reference https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3981
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973992
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 29, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00061.html
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-04/msg00065.html
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    May. 18, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:a:optipng_project:optipng:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:a:optipng_project:optipng:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous)
    Changed Reference Type http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 No Types Assigned
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 22, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2951-1
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 20, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Configuration 2 OR *cpe:2.3:a:optipng_project:optipng:0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous)
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/56/ No Types Assigned https://sourceforge.net/p/optipng/bugs/56/ Exploit
    Changed Reference Type http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 No Types Assigned http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3546 Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-119
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 15, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 7.8
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 9.3
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.95 }} 0.25%

score

0.75406

percentile