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CVE-2013-6954

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
12/01/2014
Last modified:
10/06/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.6.8 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.1:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.2:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.3:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.4:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.7:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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