CVE-2009-5063

libpng < 1.2.38 - Denial of Service via Negative Embedded Profile Length in iCCP Chunk

Title source: llm

Description

Memory leak in the embedded_profile_len function in pngwutil.c in libpng before 1.2.39beta5 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. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-7244.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/49660

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

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

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml

Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

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

Product x_refsource_confirm

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

Scores

EPSS 0.0150

EPSS Percentile 70.9%

Details

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Products (2)

libpng/libpng 1.2.39 (5 CPE variants)

libpng/libpng < 1.2.38

Published Aug 31, 2011

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026