Information disclosure in Libpng

CVE-2009-2042

libpng before 1.2.37 does not properly parse 1-bit interlaced images with width values that are not divisible by 8, which causes libpng to include uninitialized bits in certain rows of a PNG file and might allow remote attackers to read portions of sensitive memory via "out-of-bounds pixels" in the file.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.023 (81.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Libpng — versions 0.89c, 0.95, 1.0.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References