CVE-2021-4214 (GCVE-0-2021-4214)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-24 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:16
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4214Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043393Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/302Exploit, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-4214Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221020-0001/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4214Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043393Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/302Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-4214Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221020-0001/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libpng Version: libpng v1.6
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