National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-0481

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in the alpha strip capability in libpng 1.2.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when the png_do_strip_filler function is used to strip alpha channels out of the image.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 16626

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16626

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2006:0205

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0205.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1015617

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015617

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1015615

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015615

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18863

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18863

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 18654

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/18654

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179455

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179455

External Source: XF

Name: libpng-pngsetstripalpha-bo(24396)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24396

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-0393

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0393

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200812-15

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 33137

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33137

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10780

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10780

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.8-README.txt

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.8-README.txt

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10780

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10780