CVE-2007-5269

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-09-11
CWE:
CWE-125
Bugzilla:
324771: CVE-2007-5269 libpng DoS via multiple out-of-bounds reads

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-5269 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RHSA-2007:0992 2007-10-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (libpng) RHSA-2007:0992 2007-10-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (libpng) RHSA-2007:0992 2007-10-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RHSA-2007:0992 2007-10-23

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