CVE-2002-0728

Summary

CVECVE-2002-0728
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-08-12 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2008-09-05 20:28:00 UTC
DescriptionBuffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.0.x before 1.0.14, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PNG data stream that has more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Greg Roelofs Libpng 1.0.14 All All All
Application Greg Roelofs Libpng 1.2.4 All All All
Application Greg Roelofs Libpng 1.0.14 All All All
Application Greg Roelofs Libpng 1.2.4 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
MDKSA-2002:049 MANDRAKE www.linux-mandrake.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-140-2 libpng DEBIAN www.debian.org
swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png-group/archives/png-list.200207 CONFIRM swrinde.nde.swri.edu Vendor Advisory
redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Home - Conectiva CONECTIVA distro.conectiva.com.br
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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