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CVE-2006-7244

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-7244 describes a memory leak vulnerability in libpng versions prior to 1.2.15beta3, specifically in pngwutil.c. This flaw allows attackers to trigger a denial of service (memory leak or segmentation fault) by providing a specially crafted JPEG image containing an iCCP chunk with a negative embedded profile length. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network-based attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.2.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0124 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-7244Low

libpng: Memory leak by write of iCCP chunk with negative embedded profile length (CVE-2006-7244, CVE-2009-5063)

Aug 1, 2009

References

libpng.git.sourceforge.net / git/gitweb.cgi
bugs.gentoo.org / 159216
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/7
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/03/28/6
Patch