CVE-2009-5063

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-5063
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-08-31 23:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMemory 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-401 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.39 - All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.39 beta1 All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.39 beta2 All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.39 beta3 All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.39 beta4 All All
Application Libpng Libpng All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE Request: libpng memory leak af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
SourceForge - libpng/libpng/commitdiff af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 libpng.git.sourceforge.net
oss-security - CVE Request: libpng memory leak af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
SourceForge - libpng/libpng/commitdiff MITRE libpng.git.sourceforge.net
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