Low severity3.3NVD Advisory· Published Dec 8, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-27818
CVE-2020-27818
Description
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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Affected products
7- pngcheck/pngcheckdescription
- osv-coords5 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/pngcheck&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/pngcheck&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/pngcheck&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/pngcheck&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/pngcheck&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP2
< 2.3.0-lp151.3.3.1+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.0-lp151.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.0-lp152.4.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.0.0-1.7
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.0-bp151.4.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.3.0-bp152.4.3.1
Patches
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References
8- bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-04d5e1ce26nvdThird Party Advisory
- bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-23432b7b72nvdThird Party Advisory
- bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926anvdThird Party Advisory
- bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4349e95c4fnvdThird Party Advisory
- bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-339db397adnvdThird Party Advisory
- bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6c93c61069nvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00043.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
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