CVE-2011-3464

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the png_formatted_warning function in pngerror.c in libpng 1.5.4 through 1.5.7 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, which trigger a stack-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

pnggroup libpng: 1.5.0-beta, 1.5.1, 1.5.1-beta, 1.5.2, 1.5.2-beta, 1.5.3-beta (+8)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/47827
http://secunia.com/advisories/49660
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/47827
http://secunia.com/advisories/49660
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

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