VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2004-0421

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability4.11%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2004-08-18
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The Portable Network Graphics library (libpng) 1.0.15 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed PNG image file that triggers an error that causes an out-of-bounds read when creating the error message.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references