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CVE-2009-0040

Date: February 22, 2009

The PNG reference library (aka libpng) before 1.0.43, and 1.2.x before 1.2.35, as used in pngcrush and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer in (1) the png_read_png function, (2) pCAL chunk handling, or (3) setup of 16-bit gamma tables.

Severity Score

5.8

Related Resources (86)

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1750

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34137

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48819

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1830

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.433952

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:083

Url: http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000062.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2009-0040

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35386

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00272.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34210

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00769.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35302

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00771.html

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0040

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35074

Url: ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png/src/libpng-1.2.34-ADVISORY.txt

Url: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0007.html

Url: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/649212

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00412.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34324

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0473

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-28.xml

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0632

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1560

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:051

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34320

Url: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.2.34-ADVISORY.txt

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35379

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35258

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0046

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/503912/100/0/threaded

Url: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-208.htm

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0469

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33827

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00002.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0340.html

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.405420

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1451

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0040

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34272

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34152

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505990/100/0/threaded

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0315.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33990

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html

Url: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=1689&release_id=662441

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-259989-1

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10316

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:075

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0325.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33976

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0333.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1462

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501767/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34140

Url: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=e56ccc8f0902181726i200f4bf0n20d919473ec409b7%40mail.gmail.com

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34143

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34462

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34265

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020521.1-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34464

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34145

Url: http://support.avaya.com/japple/css/japple?temp.documentID=366362&temp.productID=154235&temp.releaseID=361845&temp.bucketID=126655&PAGE=Document

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34388

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33970

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6458

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/36096

Url: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-069.htm

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00009.html

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-0040

Severity Score

5.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Access of Uninitialized Pointer

CWE-824

Code Injection

CWE-94

CVSS v3

Base Score:	5.8
Attack Vector (AV):
Attack Complexity (AC):
Privileges Required (PR):
User Interaction (UI):
Scope (S):
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.8
Access Vector (AV):
Access Complexity (AC):
Authentication (AU):
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH
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