CVE-2014-0333 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the libpng library, specifically affecting versions 1.6.x through 1.6.9. A remote attacker can exploit this by providing a specially crafted IDAT chunk with a zero length to the progressive decoder, leading to an infinite loop and high CPU consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
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:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libpng:libpng:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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