MGASA-2014-0075

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    MGASA-2014-0075

    Published: 16 Feb 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2013-6954

    Summary: Updated libpng and libpng12 packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: 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 a PLTE chunk of zero bytes or a NULL palette, related to pngrtran.c and pngset.c (CVE-2013-6954).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0075.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12747, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128098.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128099.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libpng

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/libpng?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.5.13-2.1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High
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