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CVE-2014-0333

16
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 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
3.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0332 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0333Moderate

libpng: denial of service via png_push_read_chunk()

Feb 25, 2014

References

ftp.simplesystems.org / pub/png/src/libpng16/patch-libpng16-vu684412.diff
Patch
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00029.html
sourceforge.net / projects/libpng/files/libpng16/patch-libpng16-vu684412.diff
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/684412
PatchUS Government Resource