CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-27818

3.3 LOW Published 2020-12-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-12-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-120, CWE-125

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 configurations

• libpng pngcheck 2.4.0 • fedoraproject extra packages for enterprise linux 7.0 • fedoraproject extra packages for enterprise linux 8.0 • fedoraproject fedora 31 • fedoraproject fedora 32 • fedoraproject fedora 33 • fedoraproject fedora 34 • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References