CVE-2013-6954

Public Exploit

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.

5.0

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 6.13% Top 10%

Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675973
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0414	vendor advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml	vendor advisory
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128098.html	vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00071.html	vendor advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852886808946&w=2	vendor advisory
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672080
http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/1faa6ff32c648acfe3cf30a58d31d7aebc24968c	patch exploit
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/650142	third party advisory us government resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0413	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59058	third party advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852974709252&w=2	vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64493	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/58974	third party advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045561
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:035	vendor advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127947.html	vendor advisory
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676746
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128099.html	vendor advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127952.html	vendor advisory
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128114.html	vendor advisory
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.8/	patch

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2013-6954?: CVE-2013-6954 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2013-6954?: To fix CVE-2013-6954, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2013-6954 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2013-6954 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~6% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.