VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3425

medium
Published 2012-08-13 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
suse suse11.4affected
suse suse12.1affected
debian debian6.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libpnglibpng1.4.0
libpnglibpng1.4.1
libpnglibpng1.4.2
libpnglibpng1.4.3
libpnglibpng1.4.4
libpnglibpng1.4.5
libpnglibpng1.4.6
libpnglibpng1.4.7
libpnglibpng1.4.8
libpnglibpng1.4.9
libpnglibpng1.2.0
libpnglibpng1.2.1
libpnglibpng1.2.2
libpnglibpng1.2.3
libpnglibpng1.2.4
libpnglibpng1.2.5
libpnglibpng1.2.6
libpnglibpng1.2.7
libpnglibpng1.2.8
libpnglibpng1.2.9
libpnglibpng1.2.10
libpnglibpng1.2.11
libpnglibpng1.2.12
libpnglibpng1.2.13
libpnglibpng1.2.14
libpnglibpng1.2.15
libpnglibpng1.2.16
libpnglibpng1.2.17
libpnglibpng1.2.18
libpnglibpng1.2.19
libpnglibpng1.2.20
libpnglibpng1.2.21
libpnglibpng1.2.22
libpnglibpng1.2.23
libpnglibpng1.2.24
libpnglibpng1.2.25
libpnglibpng1.2.26
libpnglibpng1.2.27
libpnglibpng1.2.28
libpnglibpng1.2.29
libpnglibpng1.2.30
libpnglibpng1.2.31
libpnglibpng1.2.32
libpnglibpng1.2.33
libpnglibpng1.2.34
libpnglibpng1.2.35
libpnglibpng1.2.36
libpnglibpng1.2.37
libpnglibpng1.2.38
libpnglibpng1.2.39
libpnglibpng1.2.40
libpnglibpng1.2.41
libpnglibpng1.2.42
libpnglibpng1.2.43
libpnglibpng1.2.44
libpnglibpng1.2.45
libpnglibpng1.2.46
libpnglibpng1.2.47
libpnglibpng1.2.48
redhat redhatlibpng1.2.2-16
redhat redhatlibpng1.2.2-20
libpnglibpng1.5.0
libpnglibpng1.5.1
libpnglibpng1.5.2
libpnglibpng1.5.3
libpnglibpng1.5.4
libpnglibpng1.5.5
libpnglibpng1.5.6
libpnglibpng1.5.7
libpnglibpng1.5.8
libpnglibpng1.5.9
libpnglibpng1.5.10
libpnglibpng1.0.0
libpnglibpng1.0.1
libpnglibpng1.0.2
libpnglibpng1.0.3
libpnglibpng1.0.5
libpnglibpng1.0.6
libpnglibpng1.0.7
libpnglibpng1.0.8
libpnglibpng1.0.9
libpnglibpng1.0.10
libpnglibpng1.0.11
libpnglibpng1.0.12
libpnglibpng1.0.13
libpnglibpng1.0.14
libpnglibpng1.0.15
libpnglibpng1.0.16
libpnglibpng1.0.17
libpnglibpng1.0.18
libpnglibpng1.0.19
libpnglibpng1.0.20
libpnglibpng1.0.21
libpnglibpng1.0.22
libpnglibpng1.0.23
libpnglibpng1.0.24
libpnglibpng1.0.25
libpnglibpng1.0.26
libpnglibpng1.0.27
libpnglibpng1.0.28
libpnglibpng1.0.29
libpnglibpng1.0.30
libpnglibpng1.0.31
libpnglibpng1.0.32
libpnglibpng1.0.33
libpnglibpng1.0.34
libpnglibpng1.0.35
libpnglibpng1.0.37
libpnglibpng1.0.38
libpnglibpng1.0.39
libpnglibpng1.0.40
libpnglibpng1.0.41
libpnglibpng1.0.42
libpnglibpng1.0.43
libpnglibpng1.0.44
libpnglibpng1.0.45
libpnglibpng1.0.46
libpnglibpng1.0.47
libpnglibpng1.0.48
libpnglibpng1.0.50
libpnglibpng1.0.51
libpnglibpng1.0.52
libpnglibpng1.0.53
libpnglibpng1.0.54
libpnglibpng1.0.55
libpnglibpng1.0.56
libpnglibpng1.0.57

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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