CVE-2015-8472: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the png_set_PLTE function in libpng before 1.0.65, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.55, 1.3.x, 1.4.x before 1.4.18, 1.5.x before 1.5.25, and 1.6.x before 1.6.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk in a PNG image. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-8126.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.11.3
• Libpng Libpng: version 1.0.64 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only; …

Published 2016-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.