Out-of-bounds Read in Libpng
CVE-2004-0421
The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 1.0.15 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bounds read when creating the error message.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.041 (90.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.041 · newest: 0.041 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Libpng — versions 1.0.0, 1.0.5, 1.0.6
- Openpkg — versions 1.3, 2.0
- Trustix Secure Linux — versions 2.0, 2.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 2.1, 3.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 3.0
- Red Hat Libpng — versions 1.2.2-16, 1.2.2-20
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory, Mailing List)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list, Mailing List)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:971 (Broken Link, signature, vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-498 (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11710 (Broken Link, signature, vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/22958 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16022 (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00056.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/10244 (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)