Vulnerability in Libpng

CVE-2008-6218

Memory leak in the png_handle_tEXt function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.33 rc02 and 1.4.0 beta36 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a crafted PNG file.

EPSS: 0.023 (81.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Libpng — versions 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References