medium
4.3
CWE
119
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2012-3425: Buffer Overflow

First published: Mon Aug 13 2012(Updated: )

The png_push_read_zTXt function in pngpread.c in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.58, 1.2.x before 1.2.48, 1.4.x before 1.4.10, and 1.5.x before 1.5.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a large avail_in field value in a PNG image.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=12.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=14.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=15.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=15.10
libpng=1.4.0
libpng=1.4.1
libpng=1.4.2
libpng=1.4.3
libpng=1.4.4
libpng=1.4.5
libpng=1.4.6
libpng=1.4.7
libpng=1.4.8
libpng=1.4.9
openSUSE openSUSE=11.4
openSUSE openSUSE=12.1
libpng=1.2.0
libpng=1.2.1
libpng=1.2.2
libpng=1.2.3
libpng=1.2.4
libpng=1.2.5
libpng=1.2.6
libpng=1.2.7
libpng=1.2.8
libpng=1.2.9
libpng=1.2.10
libpng=1.2.11
libpng=1.2.12
libpng=1.2.13
libpng=1.2.14
libpng=1.2.15
libpng=1.2.16
libpng=1.2.17
libpng=1.2.18
libpng=1.2.19
libpng=1.2.20
libpng=1.2.21
libpng=1.2.22
libpng=1.2.23
libpng=1.2.24
libpng=1.2.25
libpng=1.2.26
libpng=1.2.27
libpng=1.2.28
libpng=1.2.29
libpng=1.2.30
libpng=1.2.31
libpng=1.2.32
libpng=1.2.33
libpng=1.2.34
libpng=1.2.35
libpng=1.2.36
libpng=1.2.37
libpng=1.2.38
libpng=1.2.39
libpng=1.2.40
libpng=1.2.41
libpng=1.2.42
libpng=1.2.43
libpng=1.2.43-devel
libpng=1.2.44
libpng=1.2.45
libpng=1.2.45-devel
libpng=1.2.46
libpng=1.2.46-devel
libpng=1.2.47
libpng=1.2.47-beta
libpng=1.2.48-betas
libpng=1.2.2-16
libpng=1.2.2-20
Debian Debian Linux=6.0
libpng=1.5.0-beta
libpng=1.5.1
libpng=1.5.1-beta
libpng=1.5.2
libpng=1.5.2-beta
libpng=1.5.3-beta
libpng=1.5.4
libpng=1.5.4-beta
libpng=1.5.5
libpng=1.5.5-beta
libpng=1.5.6
libpng=1.5.6-beta
libpng=1.5.7
libpng=1.5.7-beta
libpng=1.5.8
libpng=1.5.8-beta
libpng=1.5.9
libpng=1.5.9-beta
libpng=1.5.10-beta
libpng=1.0.0
libpng=1.0.1
libpng=1.0.2
libpng=1.0.3
libpng=1.0.5
libpng=1.0.6
libpng=1.0.7
libpng=1.0.8
libpng=1.0.9
libpng=1.0.10
libpng=1.0.11
libpng=1.0.12
libpng=1.0.13
libpng=1.0.14
libpng=1.0.15
libpng=1.0.16
libpng=1.0.17
libpng=1.0.18
libpng=1.0.19
libpng=1.0.20
libpng=1.0.21
libpng=1.0.22
libpng=1.0.23
libpng=1.0.24
libpng=1.0.25
libpng=1.0.26
libpng=1.0.27
libpng=1.0.28
libpng=1.0.29
libpng=1.0.30
libpng=1.0.31
libpng=1.0.32
libpng=1.0.33
libpng=1.0.34
libpng=1.0.35
libpng=1.0.37
libpng=1.0.38
libpng=1.0.39
libpng=1.0.40
libpng=1.0.41
libpng=1.0.42
libpng=1.0.43
libpng=1.0.44
libpng=1.0.45
libpng=1.0.46
libpng=1.0.47
libpng=1.0.48
libpng=1.0.50
libpng=1.0.51
libpng=1.0.52
libpng=1.0.53
libpng=1.0.54
libpng=1.0.55
libpng=1.0.55-rc01
libpng=1.0.56
libpng=1.0.56-devel
libpng=1.0.57
libpng=1.0.57-rc01

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