CVE-2011-0408
pngrtran.c in libpng 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette-based PNG image that triggers a buffer overflow, related to the png_do_expand_palette function, the png_do_rgb_to_gray function, and an integer underflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 5.6% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0434)
- Published
- January 18, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0434 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- libpng / libpng
References
- ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-1.5.0-diff.txt
- ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-README.txt
- http://osvdb.org/70417
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42863(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024955
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=002b01cbb0e2%24ae636c80%240b2a4580%24%40acm.org&forum_name=png-mng-implement
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/643140(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0080(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64637
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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