Vulnerability CVE-2006-0481
Published: 2006-01-31   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in the alpha strip capability in libpng 1.2.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) when the png_do_strip_filler function is used to strip alpha channels out of the image.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Greg roelofs -> Libpng 

 References:
ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/libpng/png/src/libpng-1.2.8-README.txt
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10780
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015615
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015617
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0205.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16626
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0393
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179455
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24396
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