CVE-2008-5286

Publication date 1 December 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Integer overflow in the _cupsImageReadPNG function in CUPS 1.1.17 through 1.3.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PNG image with a large height value, which bypasses a validation check and triggers a buffer overflow.

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References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
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Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-707-1
CUPS vulnerabilities
12 January 2009

Other references

http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2974
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507183
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5286