CVE-2007-2445
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 5.2%EU EUVD
The png_handle_tRNS function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.0.25 and 1.2.x before 1.2.17 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a grayscale PNG image with a bad tRNS chunk CRC value.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 5.2% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-2440)
- Published
- May 16, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-2440 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
- png reference library / libpng
References
- http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/changes.txt
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2007.013
- http://osvdb.org/36196
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25268(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25273(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25292(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25329(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25353
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25461
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25554
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25571
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25742
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25787
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25867
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27056
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30161
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31168
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34388
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.492650
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=508653&group_id=5624(Patch)
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=508656&group_id=5624(Patch)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102987-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200871-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-254.htm
- http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2148
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1613
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1750
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200705-24.xml
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684664(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:116
- http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/l/li/libpng/libpng-1.2.17-ADVISORY.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_13_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0356.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468910/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489135/100/0/threaded
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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