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CVE-2009-5063 (GCVE-0-2009-5063)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-08-31 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:24
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/49660 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2009-08-01 00:00
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