CVE-2017-6961
MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.14%Published: 3/17/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6961
Description
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 packages (1)
- Debian/apng2giffrom 0, < 1.8-0.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |