CVE-2019-8383: Advancemame Advancecomp

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in AdvanceCOMP through 2.1. An invalid memory address occurs in the function adv_png_unfilter_8 in lib/png.c. It can be triggered by sending a crafted file to a binary. It allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact when a victim opens a specially crafted file.

Affected products

• Advancemame Advancecomp: up to and including 2.1
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2019-02-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.