CVE-2009-5063 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-5063

Memory leak in the embedded_profile_len function in pngwutil.c in libpng...

Vulnerability Description

Memory 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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

libpng
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.2.39

Timeline

Official Publish: August 31st, 2011
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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