CVE-2008-5907 Affecting libpng package, versions <1.2.35-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.56% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBPNG-294303
  • published15 Jan 2009
  • disclosed15 Jan 2009

Introduced: 15 Jan 2009

CVE-2008-5907  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 libpng to version 1.2.35-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpng package and not the libpng package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The png_check_keyword function in pngwutil.c in libpng before 1.0.42, and 1.2.x before 1.2.34, might allow context-dependent attackers to set the value of an arbitrary memory location to zero via vectors involving creation of crafted PNG files with keywords, related to an implicit cast of the '\0' character constant to a NULL pointer. NOTE: some sources incorrectly report this as a double free vulnerability.

CVSS Base Scores

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