CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-6954

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2014-01-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-01-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

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.

Affected configurations

• libpng libpng (<= 1.6.8) • libpng libpng 1.6.0 • libpng libpng 1.6.1 • libpng libpng 1.6.2 • libpng libpng 1.6.3 • libpng libpng 1.6.4 • libpng libpng 1.6.5 • libpng libpng 1.6.6 • libpng libpng 1.6.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References