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CVE-2004-0597

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
23/11/2004
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
10.00
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:greg_roelofs:libpng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.2.5 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_messenger:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98se:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_me:*:*:second_edition:*:*:*:*:*

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