CVE-2011-2692 is a memory corruption vulnerability in the libpng library (versions 1.0.x, 1.2.x, 1.4.x, and 1.5.x) that affects products like Canonical, Debian, and Fedora. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious PNG image, leading to a denial of service (application crash) and potentially other impacts due to reading uninitialized memory. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a critical risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.55CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.2.0, < 1.2.45CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.4.0, < 1.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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