CVE-2011-0408

Published Jan 18, 2011

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description
pngrtran.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.
Source
cret@cert.org
NVD status
Modified

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
8.6
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-119

Configurations