CVE-2006-7244

libpng < 1.2.15beta3 - Denial of Service via Negative iCCP Profile Length

Title source: llm

Description

Memory leak in pngwutil.c in libpng 1.2.13beta1, and other versions before 1.2.15beta3, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak or segmentation fault) via a JPEG image containing an iCCP chunk with a negative embedded profile length.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7

Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6

Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://bugs.gentoo.org/159216?id=159216

Product x_refsource_confirm

http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=948ee23a2a400672b1751cfc646a7467741e9b2e#patch18

Scores

EPSS 0.0124

EPSS Percentile 65.8%

Details

CWE

CWE-399

Status published

Products (11)

libpng/libpng 1.0.0

libpng/libpng 1.0.1

libpng/libpng 1.0.2

libpng/libpng 1.0.3

libpng/libpng 1.0.5

libpng/libpng 1.0.6 (9 CPE variants)

libpng/libpng 1.0.7 (11 CPE variants)

libpng/libpng 1.0.8 (6 CPE variants)

libpng/libpng 1.0.9 (13 CPE variants)

libpng/libpng 1.0.10 (3 CPE variants)

... and 1 more

Published Aug 31, 2011

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026