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CVE-2004-0597

CVE information

Published

19 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in libpng 1.2.5 and earlier, as used in multiple products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed PNG images in which (1) the png_handle_tRNS function does not properly validate the length of transparency chunk (tRNS) data, or the (2) png_handle_sBIT or (3) png_handle_hIST functions do not perform sufficient bounds checking..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
10/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
10/10
Confidentiality Impact
Complete
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
Complete

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:greg_roelofs:libpng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger:6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_messenger:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:windows_media_player:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_me:*:*:second_edition:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98se:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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