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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2013-6954

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.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 4.69%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (4.69%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
4.69% probability · 91th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-476
Affected
libpng/libpng
Source
cret@cert.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.