| Name | CVE-2007-5266 |
| Description | Off-by-one error in ICC profile chunk handling in the png_set_iCCP function in pngset.c in libpng before 1.0.29 beta1 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 beta1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PNG image that prevents a name field from being NULL terminated. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libpng (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.2.50-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| libpng | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- libpng <not-affected> (vulnerable code not present)
the version in Debian does not use strncpy to copy the buffer so this off-by-one
is not present in this old version. Instead it allocates space for strlen(name)+1
and uses strcpy(new_iccp_name, name) which is not nice but safe