CVE-2011-0408

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

pngrtran.c in libpng 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette-based PNG image that triggers a buffer overflow, related to the png_do_expand_palette function, the png_do_rgb_to_gray function, and an integer underflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

pnggroup libpng: 1.5.0

References

http://osvdb.org/70417
http://secunia.com/advisories/42863
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024955
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=002b01cbb0e2%24ae636c80%240b2a4580%24%40acm.org&forum_name=png-mng-implement
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/643140
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0080
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64637
http://osvdb.org/70417

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