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CVE-2013-6954

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6954 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libpng versions prior to 1.6.8. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash applications by exploiting a NULL pointer dereference, specifically through malformed PLTE chunks or NULL palettes. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and primarily impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:*:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.1:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0469 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 26,234 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (14)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.55-1jpp.2.el5_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.3.el5_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-sun-1:1.6.0.75-1jpp.1.el6_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.4Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Network Satellite Server v 5.5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.55-1jpp.2.el5_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el5_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el5_10
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-oracle-1:1.7.0.55-1jpp.1.el6_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.7.0-ibm-1:1.7.0.7.0-1jpp.1.el6_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: java-1.6.0-ibm-1:1.6.0.16.0-1jpp.1.el6_5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: java-1.7.1-ibm-1:1.7.1.1.0-1jpp.2.el7_0
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-6954Low

libpng: unhandled zero-length PLTE chunk or NULL palette

Dec 19, 2013

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0075.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127947.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/127952.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128098.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128099.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128114.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00071.html
marc.info
marc.info
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014:0413
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014:0414
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/58974
secunia.com / advisories/59058
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201406-32.xml
sourceforge.net / p/libpng/code/ci/1faa6ff32c648acfe3cf30a58d31d7aebc24968c
ExploitPatch
sourceforge.net / projects/libpng/files/libpng16/1.6.8
Patch
ibm.com / support/docview.wss
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/650142
US Government Resource
libpng.org / pub/png/libpng.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/cpuapr2014-1972952.html
securityfocus.com / bid/64493