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Medium
CVE-2002-0728
Buffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x before...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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Affected Vendor
greg roelofs
View all reports →Affected Software
libpng
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0.14, 1.2.4
Timeline
Official Publish:
July 26th, 2002
Last Modified:
August 8th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.