CVE-2020-27818 (GCVE-0-2020-27818)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-12-08 00:04
Modified
2024-08-04 16:25
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in the check_chunk_name() function of pngcheck-2.4.0. An attacker able to pass a malicious file to be processed by pngcheck could cause a temporary denial of service, posing a low risk to application availability.
References
secalert@redhat.com https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-04d5e1ce26 Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-23432b7b72 Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926a Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4349e95c4f Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-339db397ad Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6c93c61069 Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902011 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00043.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-04d5e1ce26 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-23432b7b72 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926a Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4349e95c4f Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-339db397ad Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6c93c61069 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902011 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00043.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a pngcheck Version: pngcheck-2.4.0
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