Title : Libpng Unknown Chunks Handling Uninitialized Memory Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1225 CVE ID : CVE-2008-1382
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-04-15
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Libpng, which could be exploited by attackers to gain knowlkedge of sensitive information, cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by an error when handling unknown chunks with zero data length, which could be exploited to cause applications that call "png_set_read_user_chunk_fn()" or "png_set_keep_unknown_chunks()" to use uninitialized memory, leading to information disclosure, denial of service, or arbitrary code execution.
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