CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-6218.md

### [CVE-2008-6218](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6218)
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### Description

Memory leak in the png_handle_tEXt function in pngrutil.c in libpng before 1.2.33 rc02 and 1.4.0 beta36 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a crafted PNG file.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=635837

#### Github
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