4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-3964

Published: 11/09/2008 Updated: 31/01/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Multiple off-by-one errors in libpng prior to 1.2.32beta01, and 1.4 prior to 1.4.0beta34, allow context-dependent malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a PNG image with crafted zTXt chunks, related to (1) the png_push_read_zTXt function in pngread.c, and possibly related to (2) pngtest.c.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #501109 CVE-2008-3964: off-by-one error in pngtestc Package: libpng; Maintainer for libpng is Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debianorg>; Reported by: Steffen Joeris <steffenjoeris@skolelinuxde> Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 08:09:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security Fixed in versio ...
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 804 LTS (CVE-2007-5268, CVE-2007-5269) ...