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CVE-2009-5063

CVE information

Published

12 years ago

Last Modified

4 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.39:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.39:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.39:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.39:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.39:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -