CVE-2009-0040

critical

Description

The PNG reference library (aka libpng) before 1.0.43, and 1.2.x before 1.2.35, as used in pngcrush and other applications, 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 uninitialized pointer in (1) the png_read_png function, (2) pCAL chunk handling, or (3) setup of 16-bit gamma tables.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00771.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00769.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00412.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00272.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48819

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0007.html

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1750

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.433952

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.405420

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-28.xml

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00009.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.2.34-ADVISORY.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-02-22

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: Critical