CVE-2002-1363: Greg Roelofs Libpng

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Greg Roelofs Libpng: version 1.0.5 only; version 1.0.6 only; version 1.0.7 only; version 1.0.8 only; version 1.0.9 only; version 1.0.11 only; …

Published 2002-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.