CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-5063
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-08-31
- 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-401
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• libpng libpng (<= 1.2.38)
• libpng libpng 1.2.39
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=948ee23a2a400672b1751cfc646a7467741e9b2e#patch18 libpng.git.sourceforge.net
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49660 Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=948ee23a2a400672b1751cfc646a7467741e9b2e#patch18 libpng.git.sourceforge.net
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49660 Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory