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CVE-2008-6218

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
20/02/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

Memory leak in the png_handle_tEXt function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.33 rc02 and 1.4.0 beta36 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a crafted PNG file.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.10
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.1:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.1:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.1:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.1:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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