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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5269

NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-5269

Description:
Certain chunk handlers in libpng before 1.0.29 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted (1) pCAL (png_handle_pCAL), (2) sCAL (png_handle_sCAL), (3) tEXt (png_push_read_tEXt), (4) iTXt (png_handle_iTXt), and (5) ztXT (png_handle_ztXt) chunking in PNG images, which trigger out-of-bounds read operations.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-538-1

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html

ST
  1018849

SLACKWARE
  http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.520323

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA27093
  Secunia Advisory: SA27284
  Secunia Advisory: SA27405
  Secunia Advisory: SA27369
  Secunia Advisory: SA27391
  Secunia Advisory: SA27492
  Secunia Advisory: SA27529
  Secunia Advisory: SA27662
  Secunia Advisory: SA27629
  Secunia Advisory: SA27746
  Secunia Advisory: SA27965
  Secunia Advisory: SA29420

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0992.html

MLIST
  http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3.0.6.32.20071004082318.012a7628%40mail.comcast.net&forum_name=png-mng-implement

MISC
  http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2148

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:217

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-08.xml

FEDORA

CONFIRM
  http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
  http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html
  http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html
  http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html
  http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html
  http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html
  http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
  http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html
  http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-460.htm
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195261

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/489135/100/0/threaded
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483582/100/0/threaded

BID
  25956
  28276

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html


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