CVE-2008-1670

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the progressive PNG Image loader (decoders/pngloader.cpp) in KHTML in KDE 4.0.x up to 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted image.

Affected products

Kde: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29980
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-1.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28937
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019929
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1371/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42038
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29980
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20080426-1.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28937
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019929

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