Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 8, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-5269
CVE-2007-5269
Description
Certain chunk handlers in libpng before 1.0.29 and 1.2.x before 1.2.21 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted (1) pCAL (png_handle_pCAL), (2) sCAL (png_handle_sCAL), (3) tEXt (png_push_read_tEXt), (4) iTXt (png_handle_iTXt), and (5) ztXT (png_handle_ztXt) chunking in PNG images, which trigger out-of-bounds read operations.
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References
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- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.htmlnvd
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