Security Advisory

CVE-2006-5793

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-11-17 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 20:04:55
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The sPLT chunk handling code (png_set_sPLT function in pngset.c) in libpng 1.0.6 through 1.2.12 uses a sizeof operator on the wrong data type, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed sPLT chunks that trigger an out-of-bounds read.