Description
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) library libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does not correctly calculate offsets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack on the row buffers.
Published: 2004-09-01
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 6.8% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2002-1347 Portable Network Graphics (PNG) library libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does not correctly calculate offsets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack on the row buffers.
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Greg Roelofs Libpng
Redhat Enterprise Linux Linux
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:19:28.584Z

Reserved: 2002-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1363

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Status : Modified

Published: 2002-12-26T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-1363

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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2002-12-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2002-1363 - Bugzilla

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