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National Vulnerability Database

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-27818 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-04d5e1ce26 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-23432b7b72 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926a CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4349e95c4f CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-339db397ad CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6c93c61069 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902011 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00043.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-27818
NVD Published Date:
12/07/2020
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.