CVE-2009-0040 vulnerability in Libpng and Other Products
Published on February 22, 2009
The PNG reference library (aka libpng) before 1.0.43, and 1.2.x before 1.2.35, as used in pngcrush and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer in (1) the png_read_png function, (2) pCAL chunk handling, or (3) setup of 16-bit gamma tables.
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
8.28%
Percentile
92.09%
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