CVE-2002-0728
N/A
Published: July 26, 2002 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:58 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLibpng
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Buffer 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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (5)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png-group/archives/png-list.200207Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000512Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-152.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-140Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
Source: [email protected]
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-049.phpQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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