CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-18120
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
A double-free bug in the read_gif function in gifread.c in gifsicle 1.90 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service attack or unspecified other impact via a maliciously crafted file, because last_name is mishandled, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-1000421.
Affected configurations
• lcdf gifsicle 1.90
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878739 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881120 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/commit/118a46090c50829dc543179019e6140e1235f909 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/issues/117 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878739 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881120 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/commit/118a46090c50829dc543179019e6140e1235f909 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/issues/117 Third Party Advisory