CVE-2013-6954 (GCVE-0-2013-6954)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-01-12 15:00 – Updated: 2025-06-10 13:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-06-09 15:40 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
25 references
Date Public
2013-12-19 00:00
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{
"name": "GLSA-201406-32",
"refsource": "GENTOO",
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},
{
"name": "http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html",
"refsource": "CONFIRM",
"url": "http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html"
},
{
"name": "FEDORA-2014-1803",
"refsource": "FEDORA",
"url": "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128098.html"
},
{
"name": "openSUSE-SU-2014:0100",
"refsource": "SUSE",
"url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00071.html"
},
{
"name": "HPSBUX03091",
"refsource": "HP",
"url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=140852886808946\u0026w=2"
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{
"name": "http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/1faa6ff32c648acfe3cf30a58d31d7aebc24968c",
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},
{
"name": "VU#650142",
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{
"name": "RHSA-2014:0413",
"refsource": "REDHAT",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0413"
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{
"name": "59058",
"refsource": "SECUNIA",
"url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/59058"
},
{
"name": "SSRT101667",
"refsource": "HP",
"url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=140852886808946\u0026w=2"
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{
"name": "HPSBUX03092",
"refsource": "HP",
"url": "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=140852974709252\u0026w=2"
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{
"name": "64493",
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{
"name": "58974",
"refsource": "SECUNIA",
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{
"name": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html",
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"url": "http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127947.html"
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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