7.1 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.9 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.221 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.5%
Microsoft Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a certain PNG file with a large tEXt chunk that possibly triggers an integer overflow in PNG chunk size handling, as demonstrated by badlycrafted.png.
osvdb.org/45521
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480594/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480706/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480827/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480854/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480864/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/25816