CVE-2007-5266
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 3.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 3.4% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5246)
- Published
- October 8, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5246 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- libpng / libpng
References
- http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195261(Third Party Advisory)
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27284(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27529(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27629(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27746(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30161(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30430(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35302(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35386(Third Party Advisory)
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.520323(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=5122753600C3E94F87FBDFFCC090D1FF0400EA68%40MERCMBX07.na.sas.com&forum_name=png-mng-implement(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=e56ccc8f0709140846k24e9a040r81623783b6b1c00f%40mail.gmail.com(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-259989-1(Broken Link)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020521.1-1(Broken Link)
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-208.htm(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2148(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-08.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:217(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483582/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489135/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25957(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1462(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1560(Third Party Advisory)
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1814(Broken Link)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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