CVE-2019-9210: Advancemame Advancecomp

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.)

Affected products

  • Advancemame Advancecomp: version 2.1 only
  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 18.10 only; version 19.04 only
  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
  • Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only

Published 2019-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.