CVE-2011-0408
mediumpriority · track · 29EPSS 0.056 · 93 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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affected products (2)
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references (14)
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- http://osvdb.org/70417enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42863enisa_euvd
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024955enisa_euvd
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=002b01cbb0e2%24ae636c80%240b2a4580%24%40acm.org&forum_name=png-mng-implementenisa_euvd
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/643140enisa_euvd
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0080enisa_euvd
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64637enisa_euvd
- http://osvdb.org/70417nvd
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