VDB
CVE-2017-6961
CVE-2017-6961
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.14% · 33.7th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.14%
33.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | apng2gif | 0, 1.7-1 |
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | apng2gif | 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Mar 17, 2017 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 8, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6961 third-party-advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854441 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6961 third-party-advisory