CVE-2011-0408

libpng 1.5.x - Buffer Overflow via Crafted Palette-Based PNG Image

Title source: llm

Description

pngrtran.c in libpng 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette-based PNG image that triggers a buffer overflow, related to the png_do_expand_palette function, the png_do_rgb_to_gray function, and an integer underflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References (9)

Core 9

Core References

Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/42863

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb

http://osvdb.org/70417

US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/643140

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64637

Various Sources x_refsource_misc

ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-README.txt

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://securitytracker.com/id?1024955

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-1.5.0-diff.txt

Product x_refsource_confirm

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=002b01cbb0e2%24ae636c80%240b2a4580%24%40acm.org&forum_name=png-mng-implement

Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0080

Scores

EPSS 0.0561

EPSS Percentile 92.0%

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (1)

libpng/libpng 1.5.0

Published Jan 18, 2011

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026