Published: 12/08/2002 Updated: 05/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

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

Buffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x prior to 1.2.4, and 1.0.x prior to 1.0.14, allows malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PNG data stream that has more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk.

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greg roelofs libpng 1.2.4
greg roelofs libpng 1.0.14

Developers of the PNG library have fixed a buffer overflow in the progressive reader when the PNG datastream contains more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk Such deliberately malformed datastreams would crash applications which could potentially allow an attacker to execute malicious code Programs such as Galeon, Konqueror and various ot ...

NVD-CWE-Other ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png-group/archives/png-list.200207 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-049.php http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-140 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-152.html http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000512 https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-140 https://nvd.nist.gov

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