CVE-2011-0408 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-1.5.0-diff.txt ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-README.txt http://osvdb.org/70417 http://secunia.com/advisories/42863 http://securitytracker.com/id?1024955 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=002b01cbb0e224ae636c80240b2a45802440acm.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