Name: CVE-2009-5063: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2011-08-31T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2009-5063, CWE-401, CVSS 6.5, EPSS 0.00469

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.5

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade media-libs/libpng.	Oct 30, 2017	Aug 31, 2011
Suse	—	Upgrade libpng12-0-32bitUpgrade libpng12-0-x86Upgrade libpng-devel-32bitUpgrade libpng-develUpgrade libpng12-0	Dec 12, 2013	Jun 28, 2013
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libpng12-0	Nov 8, 2024	Aug 31, 2011

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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