Oval Definition:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6557
Revision Date:2014-06-23Version:18
Title:DSA-1750 libpng -- several vulnerabilities
Description:Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in libpng, a library for reading and writing PNG files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: The png_handle_tRNS function allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a grayscale PNG image with a bad tRNS chunk CRC value. Certain chunk handlers allow attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted pCAL, sCAL, tEXt, iTXt, and ztXT chunking in PNG images, which trigger out-of-bounds read operations. libpng allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a PNG file with zero length "unknown" chunks, which trigger an access of uninitialised memory. The png_check_keyword might allow context-dependent attackers to set the value of an arbitrary memory location to zero via vectors involving creation of crafted PNG files with keywords. A memory leak in the png_handle_tEXt function allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a crafted PNG file. libpng allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file that triggers a free of an uninitialised pointer in (1) the png_read_png function, (2) pCAL chunk handling, or (3) setup of 16-bit gamma tables.
Family:unixClass:patch
Status:ACCEPTEDReference(s):CVE-2007-2445
CVE-2007-5269
CVE-2008-1382
CVE-2008-5907
CVE-2008-6218
CVE-2009-0040
DSA-1750
Platform(s):Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Product(s):libpng
Definition Synopsis
  • Release section
  • Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 is installed
  • AND Architecture section
  • Architecture independent section
  • Installed architecture is all
  • AND libpng3 is earlier than 1.2.27-2+lenny2
  • OR Architecture dependent section
  • Supported architectures section
  • Installed architecture is s390
  • OR Installed architecture is amd64
  • OR Installed architecture is sparc
  • OR Installed architecture is arm
  • OR Installed architecture is i386
  • OR Installed architecture is armel
  • OR Installed architecture is mips
  • OR Installed architecture is ia64
  • OR Installed architecture is alpha
  • OR Installed architecture is powerpc
  • OR Installed architecture is mipsel
  • OR Installed architecture is hppa
  • AND Packages section
  • libpng12-dev is earlier than 1.2.27-2+lenny2
  • OR libpng12-0 is earlier than 1.2.27-2+lenny2
  • OR Release section
  • Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 is installed.
  • AND Architecture section
  • Architecture independent section
  • Installed architecture is all
  • AND libpng3 is earlier than 1.2.15~beta5-1+etch2
  • OR libpng12-dev is earlier than 1.2.15~beta5-1+etch2
  • OR libpng12-0 is earlier than 1.2.15~beta5-1+etch2
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