Input validation error in libpng - CVE-2013-6954
Published: January 12, 2014 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32577
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6954
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: libpng
Affected software:
libpng
libpng
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6954
Update to version 1.6.8.
Sources
- 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
- 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/
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/650142
- http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:035
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64493
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21672080
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21676746
- 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
- https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21675973