CVE-2002-0728: Greg Roelofs Libpng

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the progressive reader for libpng 1.2.x before 1.2.4, and 1.0.x before 1.0.14, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a PNG data stream that has more IDAT data than indicated by the IHDR chunk.

Affected products

• Greg Roelofs Libpng: version 1.0.14 only; version 1.2.4 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.