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>> Libpng Multiple Function Data Processing Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Title : Libpng Multiple Function Data Processing Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3390
CVE ID : CVE-2007-5266 - CVE-2007-5267 - CVE-2007-5268 - CVE-2007-5268 - CVE-2007-5269
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-10-08


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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in libpng, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. These issues are caused by errors in the "pngrtran.c" and "pngset.c" files, and within the "png_handle_pCAL()", "png_handle_sCAL()", "png_push_read_tEXt()", "png_handle_iTXt()", and "png_handle_ztXt()" functions, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an application linked against a vulnerable library, leading to a denial of service condition.

Affected Products

Libpng version 1.2.20 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to Libpng version 1.2.21 :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3390
http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.21-README.txt

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by George Cook, Jeff Phillips and Tavis Ormandy.

ChangeLog

2007-10-08 : Initial release

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