Security Advisory SA11505 - libpng Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA11505

libpng Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA11505

Release Date

2004-04-30

Last Update

2004-10-25

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

DoS

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

libpng 1.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2004-0421 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Steve Grubb has reported a vulnerability in libpng, potentially allowing malicious people to cause a Denial of Service against applications and services using libpng.

The problem is that libpng accesses out of bounds memory when creating error messages. This can be exploited to crash certain applications via malformed png image files.

Solution
Update to version 1.0.17 or 1.2.7.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Steve Grubb

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