CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-6218

7.1 HIGH Published 2009-02-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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