CVE-2006-7244

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Memory leak in pngwutil.c in libpng 1.2.13beta1, and other versions before 1.2.15beta3, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak or segmentation fault) via a JPEG image containing an iCCP chunk with a negative embedded profile length.

Affected products

pnggroup libpng: through 1.2.15; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 (+169)

References

http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=948ee23a2a400672b1751cfc646a7467741e9b2e#patch18
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6
https://bugs.gentoo.org/159216?id=159216
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=948ee23a2a400672b1751cfc646a7467741e9b2e#patch18
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6
https://bugs.gentoo.org/159216?id=159216

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