CVE-2013-6954

Published Jan 12, 2014

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
cret@cert.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Evaluator

Comment
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html "CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference"
Impact
-
Solution
-

Configurations

References