CVE-2011-2501

Description

The png_format_buffer function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PNG image that triggers an out-of-bounds read during the copying of error-message data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2004-0421 regression. NOTE: this is called an off-by-one error by some sources.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68517

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717084

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1175-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48474

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/28/16

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/13

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2287

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.617466

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063118.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062720.html

http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commit%3Bh=65e6d5a34f49acdb362a0625a706c6b914e670af

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3