CVE-2011-0408

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 None

Description

pngrtran.c in libpng 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette-based PNG image that triggers a buffer overflow, related to the png_do_expand_palette function, the png_do_rgb_to_gray function, and an integer underflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2011-0408

Assigner
cret@cert.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2011-01-18T18:03:08

Last Modified Date
2017-08-17T01:33:29

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-119	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.5.0:::::::*	1	OR

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
6.8

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8.6

Impact Score
6.4

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0080	Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024955
http://secunia.com/advisories/42863	Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/643140	US Government Resource
ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-1.5.0-diff.txt
ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-README.txt
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=002b01cbb0e2%24ae636c80%240b2a4580%24%40acm.org&forum_name=png-mng-implement
http://osvdb.org/70417
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64637

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0408
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0408

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 08:55:29				Added to TrackCVE