CVE-2011-2690

moderate-risk
Published 2011-07-17

Buffer overflow in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, when used by an application that calls the png_rgb_to_gray function but not the png_set_expand function, allows remote attackers to overwrite memory with an arbitrary amount of data, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via a crafted PNG image.

Do I need to act?

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1.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (8)

Affected Vendors

Debian Canonical Libpng Fedoraproject

References (42)

Mailing List http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
Mailing List http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/063118.html
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/45046
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/45405
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/45415
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/45460
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/45461
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/45492
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/49660
Third Party Advisory http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-15.xml
Third Party Advisory http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
Third Party Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2287
Product http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Broken Link http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:151
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/13/2
Broken Link http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1104.html
Broken Link http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1105.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48660
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1175-1
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720607
and 22 more references
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moderate-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 4/34 · Minimal
Exposure 14/34 · Moderate