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

EPSS: 0.041 (89.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory, Mailing List)
  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Mailing List)
  • cve@mitre.org (Broken Link, x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Broken Link, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
  • cve@mitre.org (Broken Link, x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MANDRAKE)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE, Broken Link)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)