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medium 6.5

CVE-2013-6954 json

The png_do_expand_palette function in libpng before 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference an…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-6755

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.7%
EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • java-1.6.0-sun RHEL 5 EXTRAS_ORACLE_JAVA 1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10
  • java-1.6.0-sun RHEL 6 EXTRAS_ORACLE_JAVA 1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5
  • java-1.6.0-sun-src RHEL 5 EXTRAS_ORACLE_JAVA 1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10
  • java-1.6.0-sun-src RHEL 6 EXTRAS_ORACLE_JAVA 1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5
  • java-1.6.0-sun-demo RHEL 5 EXTRAS_ORACLE_JAVA 1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10
  • java-1.6.0-sun-demo RHEL 6 EXTRAS_ORACLE_JAVA 1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5
  • java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc RHEL 5 EXTRAS_ORACLE_JAVA 1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10
  • java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc RHEL 6 EXTRAS_ORACLE_JAVA 1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0414RHSA-2014:0982RHSA-2014:0705RHSA-2014:0486RHSA-2014:0508RHSA-2014:0413

  • libpng16 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.6.26-1.1
  • java-1_7_0-openjdk openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.7.0.121-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10050-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10534-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-6954 updated cvss 4.3

libpng: unhandled zero-length PLTE chunk or NULL palette

  • Red Hat Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.2.el5_10, java-1.6.0-sun-src 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, java-1.6.0-sun-demo 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, java-1.6.0-sun-plugin 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, +4 more Red Hat Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-src 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-demo 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-plugin 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, +4 more Red Hat Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 6 java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-src 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-demo 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle-src 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle-javafx 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5 Red Hat Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.2.el5_10, java-1.6.0-sun-src 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, java-1.6.0-sun-demo 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, java-1.6.0-sun-plugin 1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10, +4 more Red Hat Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-src 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-demo 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-plugin 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, +4 more Red Hat Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 java-1.6.0-sun 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-src 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-demo 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-jdbc 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-sun-plugin 1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0414
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-plugin 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0705
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.2.el5_10, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, +11 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.2.el5_10, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el5_10, +11 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, +10 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0508
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-plugin 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0705
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) java-1.7.0-ibm 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-oracle 1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-ibm-src 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.6.0-ibm-src 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, java-1.7.0-ibm-demo 1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5, +10 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0508
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 7) java-1.7.1-ibm 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-src 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-demo 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-jdbc 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0, java-1.7.1-ibm-plugin 1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0705
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.4 (RHEL v.5) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5 Red Hat Satellite 5.4 (RHEL v.6) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6 Red Hat Satellite 5.5 (RHEL v.5) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5 Red Hat Satellite 5.5 (RHEL v.6) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6 Red Hat Satellite 5.6 (RHEL v.5) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5 Red Hat Satellite 5.6 (RHEL v.6) java-1.6.0-ibm 1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0982
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libpng, java-1.5.0-ibm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libpng, java-1.5.0-ibm, java-1.5.0-ibm-src, java-1.5.0-ibm-demo, java-1.5.0-ibm-jdbc, java-1.5.0-ibm-plugin, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libpng, libpng12
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

4.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/1faa6ff32c648acfe3cf30a58d31d7aebc24968c referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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