CVE-2007-5266

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in ICC profile chunk handling in the png_set_iCCP function in pngset.c in libpng before 1.0.29 beta1 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 beta1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PNG image that prevents a name field from being NULL terminated.

Affected products

pnggroup libpng: through 1.0.28; from 1.2.0 through 1.2.20

References

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195261
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27284
http://secunia.com/advisories/27529
http://secunia.com/advisories/27629
http://secunia.com/advisories/27746
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://secunia.com/advisories/30161
http://secunia.com/advisories/30430

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