CVE-2004-0421

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0421
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-08-18 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-125 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.0 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.10 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.11 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.12 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.13 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.14 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.5 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.6 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.7 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.8 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.0.9 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.0 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.1 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.2 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.3 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.4 All All All
Application Libpng Libpng 1.2.5 All All All
Application Openpkg Openpkg 1.3 All All All
Application Openpkg Openpkg 2.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 2.1 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3.0 All All All
Application Redhat Libpng 1.2.2-16 All All All
Application Redhat Libpng 1.2.2-20 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 All All All
Operating System Trustix Secure Linux 2.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
Apple - Lists.apple.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com Broken Link
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Broken Link
Mandriva update for doxygen - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-498-1 libpng af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Broken Link
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Broken Link
'[SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Update: libpng10-1.0.13-11' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Mailing List
Mandriva update for chromium - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Broken Link
LibPNG Broken PNG Out Of Bounds Access Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Broken Link, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
'[OpenPKG-SA-2004.017] OpenPKG Security Advisory (png)' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Mailing List
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Broken Link, VDB Entry
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
'[SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Update: libpng-1.2.2-20' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Mailing List
'TSLSA-2004-0025 - multi' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Mailing List
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