CVE-2008-6218 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-6218
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Description: Memory leak in the png_handle_tEXt function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.33 rc02 and 1.4.0 beta36 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a crafted PNG file.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46115 ST 1021104 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32418 Secunia Advisory: SA34265 Secunia Advisory: SA34388 Secunia Advisory: SA34320 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-28.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1750 CONFIRM http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=635837 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0046 http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=635463&group_id=5624 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/501767/100/0/threaded BID 31920

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