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CVE-2011-2501

Published: 17/07/2011 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

The png_format_buffer function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.0.x prior to 1.0.55, 1.2.x prior to 1.2.45, 1.4.x prior to 1.4.8, and 1.5.x prior to 1.5.4 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PNG image that triggers an out-of-bounds read during the copying of error-message data. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2004-0421 regression. NOTE: this is called an off-by-one error by some sources.

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Ubuntu Security Notice: libpng vulnerabilities
Libpng could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...
Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: Three security issues
Debian Bug report logs - #633871 Three security issues Package: libpng; Maintainer for libpng is Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <muehlenhoff@univentionde> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:36:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Fixed in versions libpng/1246-1, libpng/154- ...
Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: CVE-2011-2501 libpng: regression of CVE-2004-0421 in 1.2.23+
Debian Bug report logs - #632786 CVE-2011-2501 libpng: regression of CVE-2004-0421 in 1223+ Package: libpng; Maintainer for libpng is Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debianorg>; Reported by: Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debianorg> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:03:02 UTC Severity: critical Tags: patch, security F ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-2287-1 libpng -- several vulnerabilities
The PNG library libpng has been affected by several vulnerabilities The most critical one is the identified as CVE-2011-2690 Using this vulnerability, an attacker is able to overwrite memory with an arbitrary amount of data controlled by her via a crafted PNG image The other vulnerabilities are less critical and allow an attacker to cause a cras ...

References

CWE-125http://secunia.com/advisories/45046http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48474http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/28/16https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717084http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=BANLkTikrnU6FJNQYFvwmt78hwpgKPVRd1Q%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=png-mng-implementhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/13http://secunia.com/advisories/45415http://secunia.com/advisories/45486http://secunia.com/advisories/45289http://secunia.com/advisories/45460http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.617466http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2287http://secunia.com/advisories/45405http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1105.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062720.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063118.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1175-1http://secunia.com/advisories/45492http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:151http://secunia.com/advisories/49660http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xmlhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68517http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commit%3Bh=65e6d5a34f49acdb362a0625a706c6b914e670afhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/1175-1/https://nvd.nist.gov
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