CVE-2011-0408

Vulnerability 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.

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Related Weaknesses (CWE)

References

• ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-1.5.0-diff.txt
• ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-README.txt
• http://osvdb.org/70417
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42863Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1024955
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=002b01cbb0e2%24ae636c80
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/643140US Government Resource
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0080Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64637
• ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-1.5.0-diff.txt
• ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-README.txt
• http://osvdb.org/70417
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42863Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1024955
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=002b01cbb0e2%24ae636c80