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libpng: denial of service
| Package(s): | libpng | CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-1382 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | April 15, 2008 | Updated: | June 3, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the CVE entry: libpng 1.0.6 through 1.0.32, 1.2.0 through 1.2.26, and 1.4.0beta01 through 1.4.0beta19 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a PNG file with zero length "unknown" chunks, which trigger an access of uninitialized memory. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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