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CVE-2012-3425

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.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2012-3425 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 5 products from canonical, from libpng, from opensuse and 2 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2012, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2012-08-13T20:55:09.207

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	15.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	15.10	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.0	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.1	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.2	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.3	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.4	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.5	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.6	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.7	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.8	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.4.9	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	11.4	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	12.1	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.0	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.1	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.2	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.3	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.4	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.5	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.6	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.7	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.8	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.9	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.10	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.11	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.12	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.13	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.14	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.15	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.16	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.17	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.18	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.19	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.20	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.21	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.22	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.23	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.24	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.25	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.26	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.27	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.28	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.29	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.30	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.31	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.32	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.33	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.34	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.35	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.36	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.37	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.38	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.39	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.40	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.41	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.42	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.43	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.43	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.44	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.45	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.45	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.46	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.46	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.47	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.47	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.2.48	Yes
Application	redhat	libpng	1.2.2-16	Yes
Application	redhat	libpng	1.2.2-20	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	6.0	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.0	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.1	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.1	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.2	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.2	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.3	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.4	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.4	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.5	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.5	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.6	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.6	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.7	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.7	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.8	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.8	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.9	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.9	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.5.10	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.0	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.1	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.2	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.3	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.5	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.6	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.7	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.8	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.9	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.10	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.11	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.12	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.13	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.14	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.15	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.16	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.17	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.18	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.19	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.20	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.21	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.22	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.23	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.24	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.25	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.26	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.27	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.28	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.29	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.30	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.31	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.32	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.33	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.34	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.35	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.37	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.38	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.39	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.40	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.41	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.42	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.43	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.44	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.45	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.46	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.47	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.48	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.50	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.51	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.52	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.53	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.54	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.55	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.55	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.56	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.56	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.57	Yes
Application	libpng	libpng	1.0.57	Yes

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668082 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGES%3Bh=284de253b1561b976291ba7405acd71ae71ff597%3Bhb=refs/heads/libpng10 ([email protected])
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGES%3Bh=2da5a7a8b690e257f94353b5b49d493cdc385322%3Bhb=refs/heads/libpng14 ([email protected])
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGES%3Bh=73e2ffd6a1471f2144d0ce7165d7323cb109f10f%3Bhb=refs/heads/libpng15 ([email protected])
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGES%3Bhb=a4b640865ae47986bbe71ecc0e7d5181dcb0bac8 ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00004.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/24/3 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/24/5 ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2815-1 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668082 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGES%3Bh=284de253b1561b976291ba7405acd71ae71ff597%3Bhb=refs/heads/libpng10 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGES%3Bh=2da5a7a8b690e257f94353b5b49d493cdc385322%3Bhb=refs/heads/libpng14 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGES%3Bh=73e2ffd6a1471f2144d0ce7165d7323cb109f10f%3Bhb=refs/heads/libpng15 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://libpng.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libpng/libpng%3Ba=blob%3Bf=CHANGES%3Bhb=a4b640865ae47986bbe71ecc0e7d5181dcb0bac8 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00004.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/24/3 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/24/5 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2815-1 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For canonical's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.