CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-0205

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2010-03-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

The png_decompress_chunk function in pngrutil.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.53, 1.2.x before 1.2.43, and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 does not properly handle compressed ancillary-chunk data that has a disproportionately large uncompressed representation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption, and application hang) via a crafted PNG file, as demonstrated by use of the deflate compression method on data composed of many occurrences of the same character, related to a "decompression bomb" attack.

Affected configurations

• libpng libpng (>= 1.0.0 < 1.0.53) • libpng libpng (>= 1.2.0 < 1.2.43) • libpng libpng (>= 1.4.0 < 1.4.1) • apple mac os x (< 10.6.5) • fedoraproject fedora 11 • fedoraproject fedora 12 • fedoraproject fedora 13 • opensuse opensuse 11.0 • opensuse opensuse 11.1 • opensuse opensuse 11.2 • suse linux enterprise server 9 • suse linux enterprise server 10 • suse linux enterprise server 11 • canonical ubuntu linux 6.06 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 8.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 9.10 • debian debian linux 5.0 • debian debian linux 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References