CVE-2011-0408

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-0408
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercertcc
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-01-18 18:03:08 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionpngrtran.c in libpng 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette-based PNG image that triggers a buffer overflow, related to the png_do_expand_palette function, the png_do_rgb_to_gray function, and an integer underflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libpng Libpng 1.5.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
SecurityTracker: libpng Memory Corruption Error in png_do_rgb_to_gray() May Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#643140 - Libpng 1.5.0 png_set_rgb_to_gray() vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-1.5.0-diff.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.simplesystems.org
osvdb.org/70417 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-README.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.simplesystems.org
SourceForge.net: PNG and MNG/JNG image formats: home site: png-mng-implement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
libpng "png_do_rgb_to_gray()" PNG Processing Vulnerability - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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