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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:36:02 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: xiaoqixue_1@....com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, yuchen@...l.tsinghua.edu.cn
Subject: Re: CVE request - read underflow in libpng 1.2.55, 1.0.65, 1.4.18, and 1.5.25 (pngwutil.c)

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> there is a underflow read in png_check_keyword in pngwutil.c in libpng-1.2.54

> if the data of "key" is only ' ' (0x20), it will read a byte before the buffer in line 1288.

> it also impacts libpng 1.2.55, 1.0.65, 1.4.18, and 1.5.25 .

>> The bug was introduced in libpng-0.90, was fixed in libpng-1.6.0, and will be
>> fixed in libpng-1.0.66, 1.2.56, 1.4.19, and 1.5.26.

> https://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/bugs/244/

This says the problem was on a "1288 while (kp == ' ')" line but that
seems very confusing because that line doesn't appear to be present in
libpng-1.2.54 or any other version. As far as we can tell, the
unpatched code has

  while (*kp == ' ')

and the patched code has

  while (key_len && *kp == ' ')

See

  http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/d9006f683c641793252d92254a75ae9b815b42ed/

Use CVE-2015-8540.

Any instance of "kp ==" instead of "*kp ==" would have been a
different type of problem but we don't think that problem ever
occurred.

- -- 
CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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