Memory Leak Affecting libpng package, versions <1.2.39-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.5% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBPNG-294325
  • published31 Aug 2011
  • disclosed31 Aug 2011

Introduced: 31 Aug 2011

CVE-2009-5063  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 libpng to version 1.2.39-1 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.

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.

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