CVE-2008-3964

Published Sep 11, 2008

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

Description
Multiple off-by-one errors in libpng before 1.2.32beta01, and 1.4 before 1.4.0beta34, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a PNG image with crafted zTXt chunks, related to (1) the png_push_read_zTXt function in pngread.c, and possibly related to (2) pngtest.c.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.3
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-193

Vendor comments

  • Red HatNot vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of libpng as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

Configurations