CVE-2013-6954 (GCVE-0-2013-6954)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-01-12 15:00
Modified
2025-06-10 13:18
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
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.
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