CVE-2020-27818

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-27818
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27818.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-27818
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-12-08T01:15:12.320Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:34:13.051107Z
Severity
  • 3.3 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A flaw was found in the checkchunkname() 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.

Database specific 
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            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
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                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                }
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            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "31"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "32"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "33"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "34"
                }
            ],
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pnggroup/pngcheck
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
5c1bdb452ee8bfdb6272d0bcc80193ae6e9bc449
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.4.0"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libpng:pngcheck:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.2
v1.5
v1.6
v1.7
v1.8
v1.92
v1.93
v1.94
v1.96
v1.97
v1.98
v1.99.2
v1.99.3
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.1.0
v2.2.0
v2.3.0
v2.4.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27818.json"