CVE-2006-0481 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2006-0481

Heap-based buffer overflow in the alpha strip capability in libpng...

Vulnerability Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the alpha strip capability in libpng 1.2.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when the png_do_strip_filler function is used to strip alpha channels out of the image.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

greg roelofs

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Affected Software

libpng
Vulnerable Versions:
1.2.7

Timeline

Official Publish: January 31st, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.