CVE-2004-0421

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 1.0.15 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bounds read when creating the error message.

Affected products

pnggroup libpng: 1.0.0, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9 (+11)
Openpkg: 1.3, 2.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1, 3.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
RedHat Libpng: 1.2.2-16, 1.2.2-20
Trustix Secure Linux: 2.0, 2.1

References

http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00056.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108334922320309&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108335030208523&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=fedora-announce-list&m=108451350029261&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=fedora-announce-list&m=108451353608968&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/22957
http://secunia.com/advisories/22958
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-498
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:040
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:212
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:213
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-180.html

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