CVE-2009-2042 Information

Description

libpng before 1.2.37 does not properly parse 1-bit interlaced images with width values that are not divisible by 8 which causes libpng to include uninitialized bits in certain rows of a PNG file and might allow remote attackers to read portions of sensitive memory via \out-of-bounds pixels\ in the file.

Reference

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