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CVE-2009-5063

N/A

Published: August 31, 2011 at 11:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:14 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorLibpng

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 1%

Description

Memory leak in the embedded_profile_len function in pngwutil.c in libpng before 1.2.39beta5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak or segmentation fault) via a JPEG image containing an iCCP chunk with a negative embedded profile length. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-7244.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Libpng · Libpng

95%

v ≤ 1.2.381.2.39 1.2.39 beta1 1.2.39 beta2 1.2.39 beta3 1.2.39 beta4

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (5)

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=948ee23a2a400672b1751cfc646a7467741e9b2e#patch18

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken Link

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/49660

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatchThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatchThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-401

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