CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-0481
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-01-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the alpha strip capability in libpng 1.2.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when the png_do_strip_filler function is used to strip alpha channels out of the image.
Affected configurations
• greg roelofs libpng 1.2.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.8-README.txt ftp.simplesystems.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18654 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18863 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33137 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015615 Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015617 Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0205.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16626 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0393 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179455 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24396 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10780 oval.cisecurity.org
- ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.8-README.txt ftp.simplesystems.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18654 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18863 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33137 Vendor Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015615 Patch
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015617 Patch
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0205.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16626 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0393 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179455 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24396 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10780 oval.cisecurity.org