CVE-2017-6961

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6961
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6961.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6961
Related
Published
2017-03-17T09:59:00Z
Modified
2025-04-20T01:37:25Z
Downstream
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / apng2gif

Package

Name
apng2gif
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/apng2gif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.8-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / apng2gif

Package

Name
apng2gif
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/apng2gif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.8-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / apng2gif

Package

Name
apng2gif
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/apng2gif?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.8-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}