CVE-2010-0205

medium

Description

The png_decompress_chunk function in pngrutil.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.53, 1.2.x before 1.2.43, and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 does not properly handle compressed ancillary-chunk data that has a disproportionately large uncompressed representation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption, and application hang) via a crafted PNG file, as demonstrated by use of the deflate compression method on data composed of many occurrences of the same character, related to a "decompression bomb" attack.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56661

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2491

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1107

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0847

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0686

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0682

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0667

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0637

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0626

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0605

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0517

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023674

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38478

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:064

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:063

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/576029

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2032

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-913-1

http://secunia.com/advisories/41574

http://secunia.com/advisories/39251

http://secunia.com/advisories/38774

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037607.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037364.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037355.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037237.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html

http://libpng.sourceforge.net/decompression_bombs.html

http://libpng.sourceforge.net/ADVISORY-1.4.1.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-03-03

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium