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CVE-2009-2042

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-06-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

libpng before 1.2.37 does not properly parse 1-bit interlaced images with width values that are not divisible by 8, which causes libpng to include uninitialized bits in certain rows of a PNG file and might allow remote attackers to read portions of sensitive memory via "out-of-bounds pixels" in the file.

Affected Platforms

Libpng Libpng

Weakness Type

CWE-200

References