CVE-2004-0990

Gdlib vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

28.3%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Integer overflow in GD Graphics Library libgd 2.0.28 (libgd2), and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via PNG image files with large image rows values that lead to a heap-based buffer overflow in the gdImageCreateFromPngCtx function, a different set of vulnerabilities than CVE-2004-0941.

Affected vendor

Gd Graphics Library

Affected product

Gdlib

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published

2005-03-01

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 28.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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