CVE-2020-27818
LOW
3.3
CVSS Score
Published: December 8, 2020 at 12:04 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:09 AM UTC
4 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraExtra Packages for Enterprise Linux
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Severity
LOW3.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
A flaw was found in the check_chunk_name() function of pngcheck-2.4.0. An attacker able to pass a malicious file to be processed by pngcheck could cause a temporary denial of service, posing a low risk to application availability.
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, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (8)
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-04d5e1ce26x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-23432b7b72x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926ax_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4349e95c4fx_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-339db397adx_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6c93c61069x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902011Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00043.htmlCVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- REQUIRED
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- LOW
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-120CWE-125
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