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CVE-2009-0040

Disclosure Date: February 22, 2009
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Description

The PNG reference library (aka libpng) before 1.0.43, and 1.2.x before 1.2.35, as used in pngcrush and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer in (1) the png_read_png function, (2) pCAL chunk handling, or (3) setup of 16-bit gamma tables.

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General Information

Vendors

  • apple,
  • debian,
  • fedoraproject,
  • libpng,
  • opensuse,
  • suse

Products

  • debian linux 4.0,
  • debian linux 5.0,
  • fedora 10,
  • fedora 9,
  • iphone os,
  • libpng,
  • linux enterprise 10.0,
  • linux enterprise 9.0,
  • linux enterprise desktop 10,
  • linux enterprise server 10,
  • mac os x,
  • opensuse 10.3,
  • opensuse 11.0,
  • opensuse 11.1

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