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Memory leak in the embedded_profile_len function in...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 2, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 11, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 31, 2011
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 2, 2022
Last updated Apr 11, 2025

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

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Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2009-5063

GHSA ID

GHSA-w9jf-3rvw-rjrv

Source code

No known source code

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