VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-27818
An attacker able to pass a malicious file to be processed by pngcheck could cause a temporary denial of service, posing a low risk to application availability.
LOW 3.3EPSS 1.22%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A flaw was found in the check_chunk_name() function of pngcheck-2.4.0. An attacker able to pass a malicious file to be processed by pngcheck could cause a temporary denial of service, posing a low risk to application availability.
- CVSS 3.1
- 3.3 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- EPSS
- 1.22% probability · 67th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-120, CWE-125
- Affected
- libpng/pngcheck · fedoraproject/extra packages for enterprise linux · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-04d5e1ce26Third Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-23432b7b72Third Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926aThird Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4349e95c4fThird Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-339db397adThird Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6c93c61069Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902011Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00043.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-04d5e1ce26Third Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-23432b7b72Third Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926aThird Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4349e95c4fThird Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-339db397adThird Party Advisory
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6c93c61069Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902011Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00043.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.