CVE-2020-27818

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
DEBIAN (1)
openSUSE (5)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (5)
Published
2020-12-08T01:15:12Z
Modified
2026-09-30T11:45:22Z
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

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.

Database specific 
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                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
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                {
                    "introduced":  "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "debian:debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "7.0"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes":  [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "31"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "31"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "32"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "32"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "33"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "33"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "34"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "34"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product":  "fedoraproject:fedora"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck
Events
Introduced
5c1bdb452ee8bfdb6272d0bcc80193ae6e9bc449
Last Affected
5c1bdb452ee8bfdb6272d0bcc80193ae6e9bc449
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:libpng:pngcheck:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "2.4.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected":  "2.4.0"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.4.0
v2.*
v2.4.0

Database specific

source 
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