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CVE-2006-0481

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-01-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the alpha strip capability in libpng 1.2.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when the png_do_strip_filler function is used to strip alpha channels out of the image.

Affected products

• Greg Roelofs Libpng: 1.2.7

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18654
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18863
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33137
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015615
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015617
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0205.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16626
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0393
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179455
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24396

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