CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-6218
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-02-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Memory leak in the png_handle_tEXt function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.33 rc02 and 1.4.0 beta36 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a crafted PNG file.
Affected configurations
• libpng libpng 1.2.0
• libpng libpng 1.2.1
• libpng libpng 1.2.2
• libpng libpng 1.2.3
• libpng libpng 1.2.4
• libpng libpng 1.2.5
• libpng libpng 1.2.6
• libpng libpng 1.2.7
• libpng libpng 1.2.8
• libpng libpng 1.2.9
• libpng libpng 1.2.10
• libpng libpng 1.2.11
• libpng libpng 1.2.13
• libpng libpng 1.2.14
• libpng libpng 1.2.15
• libpng libpng 1.2.16
• libpng libpng 1.2.17
• libpng libpng 1.2.18
• libpng libpng 1.2.19
• libpng libpng 1.2.20
• libpng libpng 1.2.21
• libpng libpng 1.2.22
• libpng libpng 1.2.23
• libpng libpng 1.2.24
• libpng libpng 1.2.25
• libpng libpng 1.2.26
• libpng libpng 1.2.27
• libpng libpng 1.2.28
• libpng libpng 1.2.29
• libpng libpng 1.2.30
• libpng libpng 1.2.31
• libpng libpng 1.2.32
• libpng libpng 1.2.33
• libpng libpng 1.4.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32418 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34265 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34320 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34388 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-28.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=635463&group_id=5624 Patch
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=635837 Patch
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0046 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1750 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:133 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501767/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31920 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021104 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2917 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1837 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46115 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32418 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34265 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34320 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34388 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-28.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=635463&group_id=5624 Patch
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=635837 Patch
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0046 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1750 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:133 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501767/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31920 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021104 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2917 www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1837 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46115 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com