Description
The sPLT chunk handling code (png_set_sPLT function in pngset.c) in libpng 1.0.6 through 1.2.12 uses a sizeof operator on the wrong data type, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed sPLT chunks that trigger an out-of-bounds read.
Published: 2006-11-17
Score: 2.6 Low
EPSS: 2.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5777 The sPLT chunk handling code (png_set_sPLT function in pngset.c) in libpng 1.0.6 through 1.2.12 uses a sizeof operator on the wrong data type, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed sPLT chunks that trigger an out-of-bounds read.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-383-1 libpng vulnerability
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http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/03/android-sdk-update-m5-rc15-released.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=101400&action=view cve-icon cve-icon
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154380 cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22889 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22900 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22941 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22950 cve-icon cve-icon
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http://secunia.com/advisories/22956 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22958 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23208 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23335 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25329 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/25742 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-09.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017244 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.465035 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=464278 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-254.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2148 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:209 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:210 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:211 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:212 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.036.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0356.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451874/100/200/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453484/100/100/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489135/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21078 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0065/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-383-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4521 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4568 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30290 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-790 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-824 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5793 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10324 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5793 cve-icon
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Greg Roelofs Libpng
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:04:55.597Z

Reserved: 2006-11-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5793

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-11-17T23:07:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5793

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2006-11-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-5793 - Bugzilla

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