CVE-2008-1382

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

libpng 1.0.6 through 1.0.32, 1.2.0 through 1.2.26, and 1.4.0beta01 through 1.4.0beta19 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a PNG file with zero length "unknown" chunks, which trigger an access of uninitialized memory.

Affected products

pnggroup libpng: 1.0.6-a, 1.0.6-d, 1.0.6-e, 1.0.6-f, 1.0.6-g, 1.0.6-h (+304)

References

http://libpng.sourceforge.net/Advisory-1.2.26.txt
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00011.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29678
http://secunia.com/advisories/29792
http://secunia.com/advisories/29957
http://secunia.com/advisories/29992
http://secunia.com/advisories/30009
http://secunia.com/advisories/30157
http://secunia.com/advisories/30174
http://secunia.com/advisories/30402

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