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CVE-2009-0040

Published: 2/22/2009 Last updated: 8/7/2024 Reserved: 12/15/2008

The PNG reference library (aka libpng) before 1.0.43, and 1.2.x before 1.2.35, as used in pngcrush and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer in (1) the png_read_png function, (2) pCAL chunk handling, or (3) setup of 16-bit gamma tables.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (4)

conf-gd conf-libpng grib qrencode

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a n/a

References (164)