Resource exhaustion in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2010-0205
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.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.042 (90.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.042 · newest: 0.042 · change: -0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X
- Libpng
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 8.10, 9.04
- Debian Linux — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 12, 11, 13
- openSUSE — versions 11.0, 11.1, 11.2
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server — versions 10, 11, 9
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- libpng.sourceforge.net/ADVISORY-1.4.1.html (Third Party Advisory)
- libpng.sourceforge.net/decompression_bombs.html (Third Party Advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037237.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037355.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037364.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-March/037607.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)