CVE-2011-3464

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Off-by-one error in the png_formatted_warning function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.5.4 through 1.5.7 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, which trigger a stack-based buffer overflow.

Off-by-one error in the png_formatted_warning function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.5.4 through 1.5.7 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, which trigger a stack-based buffer overflow.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

libpng

First reported 12 years ago

2012-07-22 17:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-07-23 04:00:00

Affected Software

libpng 1.5.0 beta

1.5.0

libpng 1.5.1

1.5.1

libpng 1.5.1 beta

1.5.1

libpng 1.5.2

1.5.2

libpng 1.5.2 beta

1.5.2

libpng 1.5.3 beta

1.5.3

libpng 1.5.4

1.5.4

libpng 1.5.4 beta

1.5.4

libpng 1.5.5

1.5.5

libpng 1.5.5 beta

1.5.5

libpng 1.5.6

1.5.6

libpng 1.5.6 beta

1.5.6

libpng 1.5.7

1.5.7

libpng 1.5.7 beta

1.5.7

References

47827

Vendor Advisory

49660

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-201206-15

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

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