CVE-2017-6961
- 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
- Downstream
- Published
- 2017-03-17T09:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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.
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