Bug 1902011 (CVE-2020-27818) - CVE-2020-27818 pngcheck: global buffer overflow was discovered in check_chunk_name function via crafted pngfile
Summary: CVE-2020-27818 pngcheck: global buffer overflow was discovered in check_chunk...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2020-27818
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1902012
Blocks: 1902014
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-11-26 15:16 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2023-09-25 06:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-11-26 17:33:53 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2020-11-26 15:16:37 UTC 
A global buffer overflow was discovered in check_chunk_name function in pngcheck-2.4.0 via a crafted png file.

Reference:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897485
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2020-11-26 15:17:03 UTC 
Created pngcheck tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1902012]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-26 17:33:53 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
Comment 4 Todd Cullum 2020-11-30 19:01:28 UTC 
Flaw summary:

When pngcheck is provided a crafted input file, it could cause a global-buffer-overflow -> out-of-bounds read, due to improper use of casts in the check_chunk_name() function of pngcheck-2.4.0/pngcheck.c. Red Hat Product Security has designated this as a Low severity issue because an attacker would likely need to social engineer a user or already have access to a victim system, and exploiting this flaw would likely only lead to temporary denial of service (application crash).
Comment 5 Todd Cullum 2020-11-30 19:03:19 UTC 
Mitigation:

To mitigate this flaw, do not provide input files from untrusted sources to pngcheck.
Comment 7 Todd Cullum 2020-12-02 19:50:40 UTC 
External References:

F34/Rawhide: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-04d5e1ce26
F33:         https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-4349e95c4f
F32:         https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-23432b7b72
F31:         https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-27b168926a
EPEL8:       https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6c93c61069
EPEL7:       https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-339db397ad
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