CVE-2013-6954: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

January 12, 2014 (updated January 5, 2018)

The png_do_expand_palette function in libpng 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6954

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