Vulnerability in Libpng
CVE-2009-5063
Memory leak in the embedded_profile_len function in pngwutil.c in libpng before 1.2.39beta5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak or segmentation fault) via a JPEG image containing an iCCP chunk with a negative embedded profile length. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-7244.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.015 (73.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Libpng — versions 1.2.39
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/49660 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi