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F5 Networks: K9988 (CVE-2009-0040): libpng vulnerability CVE-2009-0040

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F5 Networks: K9988 (CVE-2009-0040): libpng vulnerability CVE-2009-0040

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/22/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/14/2016
Modified
02/16/2017

Description

The PNG reference library (aka libpng) before 1.0.43, and 1.2.x before 1.2.35, as used in pngcrush and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer in (1) the png_read_png function, (2) pCAL chunk handling, or (3) setup of 16-bit gamma tables.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

  • TA09-133A
  • TA09-218A
  • libpng-pointer-arrays-code-execution(48819)
  • 33827
  • 33990
  • RHSA-2009:0315
  • RHSA-2009:0325
  • RHSA-2009:0333
  • RHSA-2009:0340
  • MDVSA-2009:051
  • MDVSA-2009:075
  • MDVSA-2009:083
  • DSA-1750
  • DSA-1830
  • 1020521
  • 259989
  • GLSA-200903-28
  • GLSA-201209-25
  • SUSE-SA:2009:012
  • SUSE-SA:2009:023
  • SUSE-SR:2009:005
  • APPLE-SA-2009-05-12
  • APPLE-SA-2009-06-08-1
  • APPLE-SA-2009-06-17-1
  • APPLE-SA-2009-08-05-1
  • CVE-2009-0040
  • USN-728-1
  • USN-730-1
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