CVE-2017-6961

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6961
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6961.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-6961
Downstream
Published
2017-03-17T09:59:00.287Z
Modified
2026-03-14T09:26:25.654769Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6961.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "1.7"
            }
        ]
    }
]