CVE-2002-1363

critical

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3657

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10925

https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1943

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6431

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-402.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-249.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-157.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-119.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-007.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-006.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_004_libpng.html

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:063

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-213

http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:008

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-12-26

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.06787