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CVE-2011-3045 json

Integer signedness error in the png_inflate function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.4.10beta01, as used in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.…

published 2012-03-22 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-3013

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Integer signedness error in the png_inflate function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.4.10beta01, as used in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.83 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PNG file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3026.

Patch / fix

  • google chrome 17.0.963.83
  • libpng libpng 1.5.10
  • libpng RHEL 5 2:1.2.10-16.el5_8
  • libpng RHEL 6 2:1.2.48-1.el6_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2012:0407

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

  • syslinux Azure Linux 3.0 6.04-11

azure linux advisories AZL-41243

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-3045 updated cvss 5.1

libpng: buffer overflow in png_inflate caused by invalid type conversions

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 libpng, libpng10
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) libpng 1.2.10-16.el5_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) libpng 1.2.10-16.el5_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) libpng 1.2.48-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) libpng 1.2.48-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) libpng 1.2.48-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) libpng 1.2.48-1.el6_2
    +5 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) libpng 1.2.48-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) libpng 1.2.48-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) libpng 1.2.48-1.el6_2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) libpng 1.2.48-1.el6_2 Red Hat RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) libpng 1.2.10-16.el5_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:0407

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
17 mo ago

Exploit prediction

3.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-195 Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
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References

Sources

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