CVE-2006-7244

medium

Description

Memory leak in pngwutil.c in libpng 1.2.13beta1, and other versions before 1.2.15beta3, 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.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2006-7221

https://bugs.gentoo.org/159216?id=159216

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7

http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=948ee23a2a400672b1751cfc646a7467741e9b2e#patch18

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-08-31

Updated: 2026-04-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01239