CVE-2020-27818
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27818
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27818.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-27818
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2020-12-08T01:15:12Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-14T04:49:32.235983Z
- Severity
-
- 3.3 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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A flaw was found in the checkchunkname() 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.
- References
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- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-04d5e1ce26
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-23432b7b72
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926a
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4349e95c4f
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-339db397ad
- https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6c93c61069
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902011
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00043.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-27818
Affected packages
Debian:11 / pngcheck
Package
- Name
- pngcheck
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/pngcheck?arch=source
Debian:12 / pngcheck
Package
- Name
- pngcheck
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/pngcheck?arch=source
Debian:13 / pngcheck
Package
- Name
- pngcheck
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/pngcheck?arch=source
Debian:14 / pngcheck
Package
- Name
- pngcheck
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/pngcheck?arch=source