CVE-2008-6218

Severity

71%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.1. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

libpng

First reported 16 years ago

2009-02-20 17:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-11 20:57:00

Affected Software

libpng 1.2.0

1.2.0

libpng 1.2.1

1.2.1

libpng 1.2.2

1.2.2

libpng 1.2.3

1.2.3

libpng 1.2.4

1.2.4

libpng 1.2.5

1.2.5

libpng 1.2.6

1.2.6

libpng 1.2.7

1.2.7

libpng 1.2.8

1.2.8

libpng 1.2.9

1.2.9

libpng 1.2.10

1.2.10

libpng 1.2.11

1.2.11

libpng 1.2.13

1.2.13

libpng 1.2.14

1.2.14

libpng 1.2.15

1.2.15

libpng 1.2.16

1.2.16

libpng 1.2.17

1.2.17

libpng 1.2.18

1.2.18

libpng 1.2.19

1.2.19

libpng 1.2.20

1.2.20

libpng 1.2.21

1.2.21

libpng 1.2.22

1.2.22

libpng 1.2.23

1.2.23

libpng 1.2.24

1.2.24

libpng 1.2.25

1.2.25

libpng 1.2.26

1.2.26

libpng 1.2.27

1.2.27

libpng 1.2.28

1.2.28

libpng 1.2.29

1.2.29

libpng 1.2.30

1.2.30

libpng 1.2.31

1.2.31

libpng 1.2.32

1.2.32

libpng 1.2.33

1.2.33

References

32418

Vendor Advisory

34265

34320

34388

GLSA-200903-28

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

DSA-1750

MDVSA-2010:133

20090312 rPSA-2009-0046-1 libpng

31920

1021104

ADV-2008-2917

ADV-2010-1837

libpng-pnghandletext-dos(46115)

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