Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 18, 2011· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2011-0408
CVE-2011-0408
Description
pngrtran.c in libpng 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette-based PNG image that triggers a buffer overflow, related to the png_do_expand_palette function, the png_do_rgb_to_gray function, and an integer underflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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References
9- secunia.com/advisories/42863nvdVendor Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0080nvdVendor Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/643140nvdUS Government Resource
- ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-1.5.0-diff.txtnvd
- ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png-group/src/libpng-1.5.1beta01-README.txtnvd
- osvdb.org/70417nvd
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.phpnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64637nvd
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