CVE-2012-3425 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-3425?

CVE-2012-3425 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3425?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Libpng Libpng, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Libpng.

How do I fix CVE-2012-3425?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-3425 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3425 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-41176, GHSA-2q8q-w58c-r6vg.