Vulnerability CVE-2008-1670
Published: 2008-04-28   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Heap-based buffer overflow in the progressive PNG Image loader (decoders/pngloader.cpp) in KHTML in KDE 4.0.x up to 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
KDE -> KDE 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28937
http://secunia.com/advisories/29980
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42038
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1371/references
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019929
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-1.txt
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
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