CVE-2017-16938 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Project Optipng
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 38.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 24
Latest updateMay 14
Description
A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack or other unspecified impact with a maliciously crafted GIF format file, related to an uncontrolled loop in the LZWReadByte function of the gifread.c file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9