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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2002-1363 json

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) library libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does not correctly calculate offsets, which allows remote attackers to cau…

published 2002-12-26 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1347

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.1%
EPSS 6.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) library libpng 1.2.5 and earlier does not correctly calculate offsets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack on the row buffers.

Patch / fix

  • libpng RHEL 3 2:1.2.2-25
  • libpng10 RHEL 3 1.0.13-15
  • libpng RHEL 3 2:1.2.2-24
  • libpng10 RHEL 3 1.0.13-14

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:402RHSA-2004:249

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2002-1363 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 libpng 1.2.2-24, libpng 1.2.2-25, libpng10 1.0.13-14, libpng10 1.0.13-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 libpng 1.2.2-24, libpng 1.2.2-25, libpng10 1.0.13-14, libpng10 1.0.13-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 libpng 1.2.2-24, libpng 1.2.2-25, libpng10 1.0.13-14, libpng10 1.0.13-15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 libpng 1.2.2-24, libpng 1.2.2-25, libpng10 1.0.13-14, libpng10 1.0.13-15
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:249
  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0 Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:006
  • Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2003:007

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Exploit prediction

6.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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