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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-6954 Detail

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.


Evaluator Description

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html "CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference"

Metrics

 
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html CERT/CC, CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127947.html CERT/CC, CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127952.html CERT/CC, CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128098.html CERT/CC, CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128099.html CERT/CC, CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128114.html CERT/CC, CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00071.html CERT/CC, CVE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852886808946&w=2 CERT/CC, CVE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852974709252&w=2 CERT/CC, CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/58974 CERT/CC, CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/59058 CERT/CC, CVE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml CERT/CC, CVE
http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/1faa6ff32c648acfe3cf30a58d31d7aebc24968c CERT/CC, CVE Exploit  Patch 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.8/ CERT/CC, CVE Patch 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672080 CERT/CC, CVE
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676746 CERT/CC, CVE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/650142 CERT/CC, CVE US Government Resource 
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html CERT/CC, CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:035 CERT/CC, CVE
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html CERT/CC, CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64493 CERT/CC, CVE
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0413 CERT/CC, CVE
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0414 CERT/CC, CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045561 CERT/CC, CVE
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675973 CERT/CC, CVE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-Other Other cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference CISA-ADP  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2013-6954
NVD Published Date:
01/12/2014
NVD Last Modified:
06/10/2025
Source:
CERT/CC