CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-5269

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2007-10-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-10-08
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-20

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.

Affected configurations

• libpng libpng (<= 1.2.20) • libpng libpng 1.0.28

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References