CVE-2011-3328

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-01-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The png_handle_cHRM function in pngrutil.c in libpng 1.5.4, when color-correction support is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a malformed PNG image containing a cHRM chunk associated with a certain zero value.

Affected products

Greg Roelofs Libpng: 1.5.4

References

http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3406145&group_id=5624&atid=105624
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/477046
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740864
http://libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html

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