Upstream information

CVE-2020-27818 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 3.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1179528 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1
  • pngcheck >= 2.3.0-bp151.4.3.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-2020-2227
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP2
  • pngcheck >= 2.3.0-bp152.4.3.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-2020-2220
openSUSE Leap 15.1
  • pngcheck >= 2.3.0-lp151.3.3.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-2020-2198
openSUSE Leap 15.2
  • pngcheck >= 2.3.0-lp152.4.3.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-2020-2177
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • pngcheck >= 3.0.0-1.7
Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA pngcheck-3.0.0-1.7


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Dec 1 10:23:17 2020
CVE page last modified: Tue May 23 15:38:43 2023