Bug 324751 (CVE-2007-5268) - CVE-2007-5268 libpng possible DoS / crash
Summary: CVE-2007-5268 libpng possible DoS / crash
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2007-5268
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-09 11:57 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2021-11-12 19:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-16 09:49:12 UTC
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Description Tomas Hoger 2007-10-09 11:57:46 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-5268 to the following vulnerability:

pngrtran.c in libpng before 1.0.29 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 use (1)
logical instead of bitwise operations and (2) incorrect comparisons,
which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) via a crafted PNG image.

References:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27093
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3390
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=e56ccc8f0709140846k24e9a040r81623783b6b1c00f%40mail.gmail.com
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3.0.6.32.20071004082318.012a7628%40mail.comcast.net&forum_name=png-mng-implement
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=5122753600C3E94F87FBDFFCC090D1FF0400EBC5%40MERCMBX07.na.sas.com
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2007-10-16 09:49:12 UTC 
Described problems were introduced in libpng version 1.2.19.  No version of
libpng currently shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora is affected by
this problem.
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