CVE-2007-2445

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-05-15
Bugzilla:
239425: CVE-2007-2445 libpng png_handle_tRNS flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The png_handle_tRNS function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.0.25 and 1.2.x before 1.2.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a grayscale PNG image with a bad tRNS chunk CRC value.

Find out more about CVE-2007-2445 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (libpng) RHSA-2007:0356 2007-05-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHSA-2007:0356 2007-05-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (libpng) RHSA-2007:0356 2007-05-17
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RHSA-2007:0356 2007-05-17

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Glenn Randers-Pehrson, Mats Palmgren, and Tavis Ormandy for supplying details and patches for this issue.

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