CVE-2007-5269 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-5269 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 332249 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:025, published Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:13:43 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:22:52 2023