PT-2020-16804 · Pngcheck+3 · Pngcheck+3

Published 2020-12-06 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2020-27818

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions pngcheck version 2.4.0

Description A flaw was found in the check chunk name() function. 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.

Recommendations For pngcheck version 2.4.0, consider disabling the check chunk name() function until a patch is available to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Fix

DoS

Out of bounds Read

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

CWE-120

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-27818

DLA-3032-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2177-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2198-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2220-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:2227-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_2177-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_2198-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11176-1

USN-6182-1

Affected Products

Linuxmint

Suse

Ubuntu

Pngcheck

References · 31

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-6182-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:2227-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-27818 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27818 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-35511 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:2198-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27818 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-27818 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:11176-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-27818 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-3032-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6182-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27818 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:2220-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-27818 · Vendor Advisory