CVE-2004-0421 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2004-0421

The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 1.0.15 and earlier allows...

Vulnerability Description

The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 1.0.15 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bounds read when creating the error message.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

libpng, openpkg, enterprise linux, enterprise linux desktop, secure linux
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0.0, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.0.10, 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, 1.2.5, 1.3, 2.0, 1.2.2-16, 1.2.2-20, 2.1, 3.0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 5th, 2004
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.