CVE-2008-3964 (GCVE-0-2008-3964)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:00
VLAI
Summary
Multiple off-by-one errors in libpng before 1.2.32beta01, and 1.4 before 1.4.0beta34, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have unspecified other impact via a PNG image with crafted zTXt chunks, related to (1) the png_push_read_zTXt function in pngread.c, and possibly related to (2) pngtest.c.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2008-09-06 00:00
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