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CVE-2014-0333

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-02-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

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.

Affected products

• pnggroup libpng: 1.6.0, 1.6.0-beta, 1.6.1, 1.6.1-beta, 1.6.2, 1.6.2-beta (+12)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00029.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684412
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/patch-libpng16-vu684412.diff
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00029.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/684412
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng16/patch-libpng16-vu684412.diff

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