CVE-2013-6954
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127947.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127952.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128098.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128099.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128114.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00071.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852886808946&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852974709252&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58974
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59058
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
- http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/1faa6ff32c648acfe3cf30a58d31d7aebc24968c
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.8/
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672080
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676746
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/650142
- http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:035
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64493
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0413
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0414
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045561
- https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675973
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.