CVE-2020-27818

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    CVE-2020-27818

    Published: 8 Dec 2020Last Modified: 30 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    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.

    References: 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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00043.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902011

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 5c1bdb452ee8bfdb6272d0bcc80193ae6e9bc449
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.4.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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