CVE-2021-4214

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 24, 2022
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Jan 25, 2022

Description

A heap overflow flaw was found in libpngs' pngimage.c program. This flaw allows an attacker with local network access to pass a specially crafted PNG file to the pngimage utility, causing an application to crash, leading to a denial of service.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
libpngn/a	libpng v1.6Affected

References

https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/302
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043393
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4214
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-4214
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221020-0001/

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