CVE-2002-1363 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2002-1363

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) library libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does...

Vulnerability Description

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) library libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does not correctly calculate offsets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack on the row buffers.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

greg roelofs

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Affected Software

libpng
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.0.11, 1.0.12, 1.0.13, 1.0.14, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4

Timeline

Official Publish: September 1st, 2004
Last Modified: August 8th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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