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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- low
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120CWE-125
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- LIBPNG
- Published
- 12/8/2020
- Last Modified
- 11/21/2024
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
libpng : pngcheckfedoraproject : extra_packages_for_enterprise_linuxfedoraproject : extra_packages_for_enterprise_linuxfedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedoradebian : debian_linux
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