CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-7940
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-18
- 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-400
Description
The iw_read_gif_file function in imagew-gif.c in libimageworsener.a in ImageWorsener 1.3.0 allows remote attackers to consume an amount of available memory via a crafted file.
Affected configurations
• entropymine imageworsener 1.3.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener/issues/18 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener/issues/18 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-06 Third Party Advisory