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Memory leak in pngwutil.c in libpng 1.2.13beta1, and...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 31, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Memory leak in pngwutil.c in libpng 1.2.13beta1, and other versions before 1.2.15beta3, 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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 31, 2011
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.305%
(70th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2006-7244

GHSA ID

GHSA-v548-29gf-8prw

Source code

No known source code

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