Upstream information

CVE-2009-5063 at MITRE

Description

Memory leak in the embedded_profile_len function in pngwutil.c in libpng before 1.2.39beta5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak or segmentation fault) via a JPEG image containing an iCCP chunk with a negative embedded profile length. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-7244.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 680146 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2011:0915-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • libpng-devel >= 1.2.31-5.33.1
  • libpng-devel-32bit >= 1.2.31-5.33.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA libpng-devel-1.2.31-5.33.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • libpng12-0 >= 1.2.31-5.25.1
  • libpng12-0-32bit >= 1.2.31-5.25.1
  • libpng12-0-x86 >= 1.2.31-5.25.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA libpng12-0-1.2.31-5.25.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • libpng12-0 >= 1.2.31-5.31.1
  • libpng12-0-32bit >= 1.2.31-5.31.1
  • libpng12-0-x86 >= 1.2.31-5.31.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA libpng12-0-1.2.31-5.31.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • libpng-devel >= 1.2.31-5.33.1
  • libpng-devel-32bit >= 1.2.31-5.33.1
  • libpng12-0 >= 1.2.31-5.33.1
  • libpng12-0-32bit >= 1.2.31-5.33.1
  • libpng12-0-x86 >= 1.2.31-5.33.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA libpng12-0-1.2.31-5.33.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA libpng-devel-1.2.31-5.33.1

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 08:08:15 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:16:05 2025