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Re:CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng by heinrich5991 on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:12PM (#10566792)
Is this more than a denial of service due to crashes?
Re:CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng by jimrandomh on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:21PM (#10566832)
No one's published an example which causes arbitrary code execution yet (that I'm aware of), but most bugs of this type end up there eventually.
Re:CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng by airza on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:57PM (#10566985)
You'd need an infoleak but from somewhere, but I doubt anyone who has one will come forward.
Re:CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng by bennofs on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:19PM (#10566814)
I guess the problem is that you don't know:

> allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact

As far as I understand, trying to predict what is possible by exploiting a buffer overflow is hard because it depends on many specifics, such as compiler options used, OS protections, ...

Re:CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng by cbhl on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:18PM (#10566811)
No. Buffer overflows can be used for privilege escalation.

Crashes are better than privilege escalation, but they do not mean that privilege escalation is impossible.