CVE-2021-4214 Information

Description

A heap overflow flaw was found in libpngs’ pngimage.c program. This flaw allows an attacker with local network access to pass a specially crafted PNG file to the pngimage utility causing an application to crash leading to a denial of service.

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043393 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4214 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-4214 https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/issues/302

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