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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-5266 Detail

Description

Off-by-one error in ICC profile chunk handling in the png_set_iCCP function in pngset.c in libpng before 1.0.29 beta1 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 beta1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PNG image that prevents a name field from being NULL terminated.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/16/2007)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of libpng and libpng10 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195261 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27284 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27529 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27629 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27746 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30161 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30430 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35302 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35386 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.520323 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=5122753600C3E94F87FBDFFCC090D1FF0400EA68%40MERCMBX07.na.sas.com&forum_name=png-mng-implement CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=e56ccc8f0709140846k24e9a040r81623783b6b1c00f%40mail.gmail.com CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-259989-1 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020521.1-1 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-208.htm CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2148 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-08.xml CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:217 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483582/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489135/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25957 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1462 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1560 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1814 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-189 Numeric Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-5266
NVD Published Date:
10/08/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE