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
2026-03-20T11:36:03.906234Z
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.

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 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "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

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "31"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "32"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "33"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "34"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "9.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27818.json"