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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Score 3.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 3.3; sources differ by 0.0.
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.
December 8, 2020
November 21, 2024
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | pngcheck (2.3.0-7ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1) @ xenial | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
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