CVE-2006-5793

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The sPLT chunk handling code (png_set_sPLT function in pngset.c) in libpng 1.0.6 through 1.2.12 uses a sizeof operator on the wrong data type, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed sPLT chunks that trigger an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

Greg Roelofs Libpng: 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.2.0, 1.2.1 (+12)

References

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=101400&action=view
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154380
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/22889
http://secunia.com/advisories/22900
http://secunia.com/advisories/22941
http://secunia.com/advisories/22950
http://secunia.com/advisories/22951
http://secunia.com/advisories/22956
http://secunia.com/advisories/22958

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