CVE-2013-6954

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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.

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127947.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127952.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128098.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128099.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128114.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00071.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852886808946&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=140852974709252&w=2

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0413

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0414

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045561

http://secunia.com/advisories/58974

http://secunia.com/advisories/59058

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml

http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/1faa6ff32c648acfe3cf30a58d31d7aebc24968c

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.8/

https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675973

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672080

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676746

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/650142

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:035

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-01-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium