Medium severity · published Jan 12, 2014
CVE-2013-6954
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…
6.5
CVSS
4.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.7% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Libpng · Libpng
through 1.6.8; 1.6.0; 1.6.0; 1.6.1; 1.6.1; 1.6.2; +9 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6954
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6954
advisories.mageia.org
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127947.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127952.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128098.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128099.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128114.html
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