OpenPKG Security Advisory
OpenPKG-SA-2007.013
Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/
Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2007.013
Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2007.013
Advisory Published: 2010-02-09 09:40 UTC
Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20070517.02
Issue First Created: 2007-05-17
Issue Last Modified: 2007-05-17
Issue Revision: 03
Subject Name: png
Subject Summary: Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Image Format Library
Subject Home: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Subject Versions: * <= 1.2.16
Vulnerability Id: CVE-2007-2445
Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific)
Attack Feasibility: run-time
Attack Vector: remote network
Attack Impact: denial of service
Description:
As confirmed by the vendor, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability
exists in the PNG [0] image format library libpng [1]. The bug is
a NULL-pointer-dereference vulnerability involving palette images
with a malformed "tRNS" PNG chunk, i.e., one with a bad CRC value.
This bug can, at a minimum, cause crashes in applications simply by
displaying a malformed image.
References:
[0] http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
[1] http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2445
Primary Package Name: png
Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/png
Affected Distribution: Affected Branch: Affected Package:
OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID ghostscript-8.54-E1.0.0
OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID png-1.2.12-E1.0.1
OpenPKG Community CURRENT ghostscript-8.57-20070512
OpenPKG Community CURRENT png-1.2.16-20070507
Corrected Distribution: Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID ghostscript-8.54-E1.0.1
OpenPKG Enterprise E1.0-SOLID png-1.2.12-E1.0.2
OpenPKG Community CURRENT ghostscript-8.57-20070516
OpenPKG Community CURRENT png-1.2.18-20070516