VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-6961

CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.80%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-03-17
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references