Buffer overflow in KDE

CVE-2008-1670

Heap-based buffer overflow in the progressive PNG Image loader (decoders/pngloader.cpp) in KHTML in KDE 4.0.x up to 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.048 (91.6th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-1670: held from 0.048 to 0.048.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.048 · newest: 0.048 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • KDE — versions 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

References