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    CVE-2006-5793

    The sPLT chunk handling code (png_set_sPLT function in pngset.c) in libpng 1.0.6 through 1.2.12 uses a sizeof operator on the wrong data type, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed sPLT chunks that trigger an out-of-bounds read.

    Published:Nov 14, 2006
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Nov 17, 2006
    EPSS Score:0.02329
    CVSS Score:2.6

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Greg Roelofs
    Product
    Libpng
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection
    CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting
    CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection
    CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection
    CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering
    CAPEC-120 Double Encoding
    CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values
    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection
    CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation
    CAPEC-182 Flash Injection
    CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-23 File Content Injection
    CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
    CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
    CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    CAPEC-250 XML Injection
    CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data
    CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-28 Fuzzing
    CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters
    CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion
    CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers
    CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links
    CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags
    CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion
    CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof
    CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes
    CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash
    CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS
    CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()
    CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection
    CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-72 URL Encoding
    CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename
    CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding
    CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call
    CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic
    CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering
    CAPEC-83 XPath Injection
    CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting
    CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection
    CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2011-3328 (CVSS 2.6) — The png_handle_cHRM function in pngrutil.c in libpng 1.5.4, when color-correction support is enabled, allows r…
    CVE-2006-3334 (CVSS 7.5) — Buffer overflow in the png_decompress_chunk function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.12 allows context-depe…
    CVE-2006-0481 (CVSS 5) — Heap-based buffer overflow in the alpha strip capability in libpng 1.2.7 allows context-dependent attackers to…
    CVE-2004-0599 (CVSS 5) — Multiple integer overflows in the (1) png_read_png in pngread.c or (2) png_handle_sPLT functions in pngrutil.c…
    CVE-2004-0598 (CVSS 5) — The png_handle_iCCP function in libpng 1.2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service …
    CVE-2004-0597 (CVSS 10) — Multiple buffer overflows in libpng 1.2.5 and earlier, as used in multiple products, allow remote attackers to…
    CVE-2002-1363 (CVSS 7.5) — Portable Network Graphics (PNG) library libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does not correctly calculate offsets, which a…
    CVE-2002-0660 (CVSS 7.5) — Buffer overflow in libpng 1.0.12-3.woody.2 and libpng3 1.2.1-1.1.woody.2 on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, and other op…
    CVE-2002-0728 (CVSS 5) — Buffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.0.x before 1.0.14, allows attac…

    References

    http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html
    http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=101400&action=view
    http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154380
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22889
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22900
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22941
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22950
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22951
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22956
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22958
    http://secunia.com/advisories/23208
    http://secunia.com/advisories/23335
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25329
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25742
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-09.xml
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1017244
    http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.465035
    http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=464278
    http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-254.htm
    http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2148
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:209
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:210
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:211
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:212
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html
    http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.036.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0356.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451874/100/200/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453484/100/100/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489135/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21078
    http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0065/
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-383-1
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4521
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4568
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30290
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-790
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-824
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10324
    http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html
    http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=101400&action=view
    http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154380
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
    http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22889
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22900
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22941
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22950
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22951
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22956
    http://secunia.com/advisories/22958
    http://secunia.com/advisories/23208
    http://secunia.com/advisories/23335
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25329
    http://secunia.com/advisories/25742
    http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
    http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-09.xml
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1017244
    http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.465035
    http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=464278
    http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-254.htm
    http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2148
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:209
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:210
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:211
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:212
    http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html
    http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.036.html
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0356.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451874/100/200/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453484/100/100/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489135/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21078
    http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0065/
    http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-383-1
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4521
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4568
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30290
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-790
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-824
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10324

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High