CVE-2017-16938Improper 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

Affected Packages2 packages

Debianoptipng_project/optipng< 0.7.6-1.1+3

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-78q2-wp6j-q4hp: A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 02022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2017-16938: A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 02017-11-24
OSV
CVE-2017-16938: A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 02017-11-24

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
optipng: global buffer overflow in gifread.c:LZWReadByte when parsing malicious GIF2017-11-24
Debian
CVE-2017-16938: optipng - A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a den...2017

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-16938 optipng: global buffer overflow in gifread.c:LZWReadByte when parsing malicious GIF2017-12-04
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-16938 optipng: global buffer overflow in gifread.c:LZWReadByte when parsing malicious GIF [fedora-all]2017-12-04
CVE-2017-16938 — Optipng Project Optipng vulnerability | cvebase