CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-6961

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-03-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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 configurations

• apng2gif project apng2gif 1.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References