CVE-2007-5269

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-10-08
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

Certain chunk handlers in libpng before 1.0.29 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted (1) pCAL (png_handle_pCAL), (2) sCAL (png_handle_sCAL), (3) tEXt (png_push_read_tEXt), (4) iTXt (png_handle_iTXt), and (5) ztXT (png_handle_ztXt) chunking in PNG images, which trigger out-of-bounds read operations.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (libpng)	ELSA-2007-0992	2007-10-23
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (libpng10)	ELSA-2007-0992	2007-10-23
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (libpng)	ELSA-2007-0992	2007-10-23
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (libpng10)	ELSA-2007-0992	2007-10-23
Oracle Linux version 5 (libpng)	ELSA-2007-0992	2007-10-23