CVE-2002-1363

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) library libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does not correctly calculate offsets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack on the row buffers.

Affected products

Greg Roelofs Libpng: 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.0.11 (+8)

References

http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:008
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-213
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:063
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_004_libpng.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-006.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-007.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-119.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-157.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-249.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-402.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6431
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1943

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