FKIE_CVE-2006-3334
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-06-30 23:05 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:26
Severity
Summary
Buffer overflow in the png_decompress_chunk function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.12 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to "chunk error processing," possibly involving the "chunk_name".
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| greg_roelofs | libpng | * | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.0 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.1 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.2 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.3 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.4 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.5 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.6 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.7 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.7rc1 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.8 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.9 | |
| greg_roelofs | libpng | 1.2.10 |
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