CVE-2004-0421

CWE-125Out-of-bounds Read12 documents5 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUM
EPSS
3.3%
top 12.76%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedAug 18
Latest updateApr 29

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages5 packages

NVDlibpng/libpng17 versions+16
NVDredhat/libpng1.2.2-16, 1.2.2-20+1
NVDopenpkg/openpkg1.3, 2.0+1
NVDtrustix/secure_linux2.0, 2.1+1

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f6gc-489h-x492: The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 12022-04-29
CVEList
CVE-2004-0421: The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 12004-05-05

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
libpng: regression of CVE-2004-0421 in 1.2.23+2011-06-07
Red Hat
CAN-2004-0421 libpng can access out of bounds memory2004-04-29

💬Community

7
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2501 libpng: regression of CVE-2004-0421 in 1.2.23+ [fedora-all]2011-06-29
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2501 libpng: regression of CVE-2004-0421 in 1.2.23+ [fedora-all]2011-06-29
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2501 libpng: regression of CVE-2004-0421 in 1.2.23+ [fedora-all]2011-06-29
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2501 libpng: regression of CVE-2004-0421 in 1.2.23+ [epel-5]2011-06-29
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2501 libpng: regression of CVE-2004-0421 in 1.2.23+ [epel-6]2011-06-29