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CVE-2004-0421
The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 1.0.15 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed…
Medium5.0EPSS 4.1%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.1% · top 9.2% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (17)
- FEDORA-2004-106 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 20040429 [OpenPKG-SA-2004.017] OpenPKG Security Advisory (png) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:971 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- DSA-498 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11710 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MDKSA-2004:040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- 22958 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- libpng-png-dos(16022) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2004-09-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 10244 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2004-105 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:213 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- RHSA-2004:180 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:212 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 2004-0025 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- RHSA-2004:181 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 22957 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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