CVE-2009-0040 Information

Description

The PNG reference library (aka libpng) before 1.0.43 and 1.2.x before 1.2.35 as used in pngcrush and other applications allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer in (1) the png_read_png function (2) pCAL chunk handling or (3) setup of 16-bit gamma tables.

Reference

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