Unscored CVE-2002-0728 EUVD-2002-0720GHSA-hm75-38g4-x8xm

Buffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.0.x before 1.0.14, allows attackers to cause a denial of ser…

Published Jul 26, 2002 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Buffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.0.x before 1.0.14, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PNG data stream that has more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗

Release	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Debian 3.0	libpng	1.0.12-3.woody.2	DSA-140
Debian 3.0	libpng3	1.2.1-1.1.woody.2	DSA-140

Advisories 1

DSA-140 libpng - buffer overflow Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026

References

DSA-140 vendor-advisory
RHSA-2002:152 vendor-advisory
CLA-2002:512 vendor-advisory
MDKSA-2002:049 vendor-advisory