HIGHCVSS v4 8.4Vulnerability

CVE-2026-91186

The PNG chunk reader has no notion of chunk ordering. It records whether an IDAT has been seen and whether a tRNS has already supplied transparency, but nothing prevents an IHDR being read a second time. A PNG carries exactly one IHDR and it is the first chunk. A file that places a second one after IDAT rewrites the image width, height, bit depth and pixel depth *after* the decoded-data buffer has already been allocated and filled from the original values. The pass that reverses the PNG row filters then derives its own extent from the new dimensions and walks the old allocation, moving image bytes past the end of it. The buffer is allocated by GUIX rather than supplied by the caller, so the application has no way to size it defensively. The decoder is compiled in by default.

Properties

Severity
HIGH
Nvd fetched at
2026-10-20T21:14:08.448323+00:00
Cvss severity
HIGH
Cvss score
8.4
Retrieved at
2026-10-20T21:15:35+00:00
Score
8.4
Cvss version
4.0
Last source
NVD
Cve id
CVE-2026-91186
Cvss vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
First seen by Signal
2026-10-20T17:10:14+00:00
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Published at
2026-10-20T15:17:36.023
Last modified
2026-10-20T19:48:50.250

Related Entities (2)

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

→[Weakness]Out-of-bounds Write
→[Weakness]Out-of-bounds Read

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