CVE-2007-5267

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% 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 1.2.22 beta1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PNG image, due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2007-5266.

Affected products

pnggroup libpng: through 1.2.21

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://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27130
http://secunia.com/advisories/27284
http://secunia.com/advisories/27746
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://secunia.com/advisories/35302
http://secunia.com/advisories/35386
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.520323
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=47067C84.7010205%40playstation.sony.com&forum_name=png-mng-implement
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=3.0.6.32.20071005143158.012ada08%40mail.comcast.net

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