Vulnerability CVE-2021-4214
Published: 2022-08-24

Description:
A heap overflow flaw was found in libpngs' pngimage.c program. This flaw allows an attacker with local network access to pass a specially crafted PNG file to the pngimage utility, causing an application to crash, leading to a denial of service.

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043393
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4214
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-4214
https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/302
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