| Name | CVE-2013-6954 |
| 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 | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-2923-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libpng (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.2.50-2+deb8u3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| libpng | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| openjdk-7 | source | wheezy | 7u55-2.4.7-1~deb7u1 | | DSA-2923-1 | |
Notes
- libpng <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 1.6.1)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1045561
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31751422