CVE-2017-7962

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7962
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7962.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-7962
Published
2017-04-19T15:59:00.240Z
Modified
2025-11-20T10:20:56.196463Z
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

The iwgifreadimage function in imagew-gif.c in libimageworsener.a in ImageWorsener 1.3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) via a crafted file.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/jsummers/imageworsener

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
ca3356eb49fee03e2eaf6b6aff826988c1122d93

Affected versions

0.*

0.9.0
0.9.1
0.9.10
0.9.2
0.9.3
0.9.4
0.9.5
0.9.6
0.9.8
0.9.9

1.*

1.0.0
1.1.0
1.2.0
1.3.0

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener/commit/ca3356eb49fee03e2eaf6b6aff826988c1122d93",
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "length": 1725.0,
            "function_hash": "302851320383472191590232637873704531140"
        },
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "id": "CVE-2017-7962-86e775ca",
        "target": {
            "function": "iwgif_read_image",
            "file": "src/imagew-gif.c"
        }
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "source": "https://github.com/jsummers/imageworsener/commit/ca3356eb49fee03e2eaf6b6aff826988c1122d93",
        "deprecated": false,
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "128062224009350537018407221712288824803",
                "295319742635030786793730408592017202503",
                "206599785878202985957069950396693650379",
                "246862335577992734676135847314490833824"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "id": "CVE-2017-7962-ba00a213",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/imagew-gif.c"
        }
    }
]

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-7962.json"