CVE-2007-5269
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 4.8%EU EUVD
Certain chunk handlers in libpng before 1.0.29 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted (1) pCAL (png_handle_pCAL), (2) sCAL (png_handle_sCAL), (3) tEXt (png_push_read_tEXt), (4) iTXt (png_handle_iTXt), and (5) ztXT (png_handle_ztXt) chunking in PNG images, which trigger out-of-bounds read operations.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 4.8% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5249)
- 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-2007-5249 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- libpng / libpng
- libpng / libpng
References
- http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195261
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-August/064118.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27093(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27284
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27369
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27391
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27405
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27492
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27529
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27629
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27662
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27746
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30161
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30430
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31712
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31713
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34388
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35302
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35386
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.520323
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3.0.6.32.20071004082318.012a7628%40mail.comcast.net&forum_name=png-mng-implement(Patch)
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-259989-1
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1020521.1-1
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-460.htm
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-208.htm
- http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2148
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1750
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-08.xml
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-07.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:217
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0992.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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