CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
97.0%
It was discovered that libpng did not properly perform bounds checking in
certain operations. An attacker could send a specially crafted PNG image and
cause a denial of service in applications linked against libpng. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2007-5268, CVE-2007-5269)
Tavis Ormandy discovered that libpng did not properly initialize memory. If a
user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PNG image, an
attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
This issue did not affect Ubuntu 8.10. (CVE-2008-1382)
Harald van Dijk discovered an off-by-one error in libpng. An attacker could
could cause an application crash in programs using pngtest. (CVE-2008-3964)
It was discovered that libpng did not properly NULL terminate a keyword
string. An attacker could exploit this to set arbitrary memory locations to
zero. (CVE-2008-5907)
Glenn Randers-Pehrson discovered that libpng did not properly initialize
pointers. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted PNG
file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2009-0040)
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 8.10 | noarch | libpng12-0 | < 1.2.27-1ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.10 | noarch | libpng12-0 | < udeb-1.2.27-1ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.10 | noarch | libpng12-dev | < 1.2.27-1ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | libpng12-0 | < 1.2.15~beta5-3ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | libpng12-0-udeb | < 1.2.15~beta5-3ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 8.04 | noarch | libpng12-dev | < 1.2.15~beta5-3ubuntu0.1 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.10 | noarch | libpng12-0 | < 1.2.15~beta5-2ubuntu0.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.10 | noarch | libpng12-0-udeb | < 1.2.15~beta5-2ubuntu0.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 7.10 | noarch | libpng12-dev | < 1.2.15~beta5-2ubuntu0.2 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 6.06 | noarch | libpng12-0 | < 1.2.8rel-5ubuntu0.4 | UNKNOWN |