CVE-2007-5269

Medium

Description

Certain chunk handlers in libpng before 1.0.29 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted (1) pCAL (png_handle_pCAL), (2) sCAL (png_handle_sCAL), (3) tEXt (png_push_read_tEXt), (4) iTXt (png_handle_iTXt), and (5) ztXT (png_handle_ztXt) chunking in PNG images, which trigger out-of-bounds read operations.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductLibpng
PublishedOct 8, 2007
First seenOct 8, 2007

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
libpng libpngv ≤ 1.2.20, 1.0.28—

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