CVE-2004-0597 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2004-0597

Multiple buffer overflows in libpng 1.2.5 and earlier, as used...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple buffer overflows in libpng 1.2.5 and earlier, as used in multiple products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed PNG images in which (1) the png_handle_tRNS function does not properly validate the length of transparency chunk (tRNS) data, or the (2) png_handle_sBIT or (3) png_handle_hIST functions do not perform sufficient bounds checking.

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.

References

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Affected Vendor

greg roelofs

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Affected Software

libpng, msn messenger, windows media player, windows messenger, windows 98se, windows me
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 6.1, 6.2, 9, 5.0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 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.