5.5med
CVE-2017-6961
An issue was discovered in apng2gif 1.7.
Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
5.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.8%
percentile 57%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
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.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.80% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
References
- bugs.debian.org /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854441 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2017-6961
- NVD: CVE-2017-6961
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