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CVE-2017-6961
published 2017-03-17

CVE-2017-6961: An issue was discovered in apng2gif 1.7. There is improper sanitization of user input causing huge memory allocations, resulting in a crash. This is related to…

PriorityP417medium5.5CVSS 3.0
AVLACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.80%
52.9th percentile
An issue was discovered in apng2gif 1.7. There is improper sanitization of user input causing huge memory allocations, resulting in a crash. This is related to the read_chunk function using the pChunk->size value (within the PNG file) to determine the amount of memory to allocate.

Affected

6 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
apng2gif_projectapng2gif——
apng2gif_projectapng2gif>= 0 < 1.8-0.11.8-0.1
apng2gif_projectapng2gif>= 0 < 1.8-0.11.8-0.1
apng2gif_projectapng2gif>= 0 < 1.8-0.11.8-0.1
apng2gif_projectapng2gif>= 0 < 1.8-0.11.8-0.1
debianapng2gif< apng2gif 1.8-0.1 (bookworm)apng2gif 1.8-0.1 (bookworm)

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.05.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
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