CVE-2007-2445

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The png_handle_tRNS function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.0.25 and 1.2.x before 1.2.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a grayscale PNG image with a bad tRNS chunk CRC value.

Affected products

Png Reference Library Libpng: through 1.0.15; through 1.2.16

References

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/changes.txt
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2007.013
http://osvdb.org/36196
http://secunia.com/advisories/25268
http://secunia.com/advisories/25273
http://secunia.com/advisories/25292
http://secunia.com/advisories/25329
http://secunia.com/advisories/25353
http://secunia.com/advisories/25461

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