CVE-2020-28248

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-28248
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-02-20 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-07-21 11:39:00 UTC
DescriptionAn integer overflow in the PngImg::InitStorage_() function of png-img before 3.1.0 leads to an under-allocation of heap memory and subsequently an exploitable heap-based buffer overflow when loading a crafted PNG file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787 | CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Png-img Project Png-img All All All All
Application Png-img Project Png-img All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Handle image size overflow · gemini-testing/png-img@14ac462 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
GHSL-2020-142: Heap memory corruption in png-img - CVE-2020-28248 - GitHub Security Lab MISC securitylab.github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
GitHub - gemini-testing/png-img: Lite libpng wrapper for node.js MISC github.com Product
Comparing v3.0.0...v3.1.0 · gemini-testing/png-img · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
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