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.

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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2923-1 openjdk-7 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-6755 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.
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References
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http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127947.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127952.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128098.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128099.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128114.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00071.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852886808946&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852974709252&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/58974 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/59058 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/1faa6ff32c648acfe3cf30a58d31d7aebc24968c cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.8/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672080 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676746 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/650142 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:035 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64493 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0413 cve-icon cve-icon
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0414 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045561 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6954 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6954 cve-icon
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675973 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-476
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-10T13:18:13.099Z

Reserved: 2013-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-6954

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-06T17:53:45.097Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-01-12T18:34:55.893

Modified: 2025-06-10T14:15:22.367

Link: CVE-2013-6954

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2013-12-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-6954 - Bugzilla

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