CVE-2004-0768

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-10-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does not properly calculate certain buffer offsets, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack.

Affected products

Greg Roelofs Libpng3: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33137
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-536
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1943
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16914
http://secunia.com/advisories/33137
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-15.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-536
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1943
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16914

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