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CVE-2004-0421

high

Description

The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 1.0.15 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bounds read when creating the error message.

References

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:213

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:212

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:040

http://marc.info/?l=fedora-announce-list&m=108451353608968&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=fedora-announce-list&m=108451350029261&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108335030208523&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108334922320309&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2004-08-18

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02564