Vulnerability CVE-2002-0728
Published: 2002-08-12   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Buffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.0.x before 1.0.14, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PNG data stream that has more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Greg roelofs -> Libpng 

 References:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-049.php
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-140
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-152.html
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000512
ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png-group/archives/png-list.200207
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