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CVE-2002-0728

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-08-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.0.x before 1.0.14, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PNG data stream that has more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk.

Affected products

• Greg Roelofs Libpng: 1.0.14, 1.2.4

References

• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000512
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-152.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-140
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-049.php
• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000512
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-152.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-140
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-049.php

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