Bug 1070985 (CVE-2014-0333) - CVE-2014-0333 libpng: denial of service via png_push_read_chunk()
Summary: CVE-2014-0333 libpng: denial of service via png_push_read_chunk()
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-0333
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1070987 1070988
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-02-27 21:17 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:49 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: libpng 1.6.10
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-09-05 19:03:51 UTC

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Description Vincent Danen 2014-02-27 21:17:15 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2014-0333 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2014-0333
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0333
Assigned: 20131205
Reference: CONFIRM:ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png/src/libpng16/patch-libpng16-vu684412.diff
Reference: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/patch-libpng16-vu684412.diff
Reference: CERT-VN:VU#684412
Reference: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684412

The png_push_read_chunk function in pngpread.c in the progressive
decoder in libpng 1.6.x through 1.6.9 allows remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an IDAT
chunk with a length of zero.


The upstream commit is here:

http://sourceforge.net/p/libpng/code/ci/713a20c57d344b558e48ad8be157c2dd751c8815/

Note that this only affects libpng 1.6.0 through 1.6.9.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2014-02-27 21:23:08 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of libpng as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6.
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2014-02-27 21:23:46 UTC 
Created libpng tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-20 [bug 1070987]
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2014-02-27 21:23:49 UTC 
Created mingw-libpng tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-20 [bug 1070988]
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-04-02 09:27:03 UTC 
mingw-libpng-1.6.10-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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