| Name | CVE-2009-2042 |
| Description | libpng before 1.2.37 does not properly parse 1-bit interlaced images with width values that are not divisible by 8, which causes libpng to include uninitialized bits in certain rows of a PNG file and might allow remote attackers to read portions of sensitive memory via "out-of-bounds pixels" in the file. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2032-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 533676 |
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.
Notes
[etch] - libpng <no-dsa> (Minor issue, only exploitable in rare setups)
- xulrunner <not-affected> (xulrunner dynamically linked against libpng; embeded code copy not used)