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CVE-2009-5063

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2011-08-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in the embedded_profile_len function in pngwutil.c in libpng before 1.2.39beta5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory leak or segmentation fault) via a JPEG image containing an iCCP chunk with a negative embedded profile length. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-7244.

Affected Platforms

Libpng Libpng

Weakness Type

CWE-401

References