CVE-2013-6954
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- Jan 12, 2014
- Updated
- Jun 10, 2025
- Reserved
- Dec 4, 2013
Description
The png_do_expand_palette function in libpng before 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via (1) a PLTE chunk of zero bytes or (2) a NULL palette, related to pngrtran.c and pngset.c.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675973
- RHSA-2014:0414vendor-advisory
- GLSA-201406-32vendor-advisory
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html
- FEDORA-2014-1803vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0100vendor-advisory
- HPSBUX03091vendor-advisory
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672080
- http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/1faa6ff32c648acfe3cf30a58d31d7aebc24968c
- VU#650142third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2014:0413vendor-advisory
- 59058third-party-advisory
- HPSBUX03092vendor-advisory
- 64493vdb-entry
- 58974third-party-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045561
- MDVSA-2014:035vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2014-1754vendor-advisory
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676746
- FEDORA-2014-1770vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2014-1778vendor-advisory
- http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
- FEDORA-2014-1766vendor-advisory
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.8/
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