CVE-2017-6960

HIGH

apng2gif 1.7 - Heap-Based Buffer Over-Read via Integer Overflow in load_apng

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in apng2gif 1.7. There is an integer overflow resulting in a heap-based buffer over-read, related to the load_apng function and the imagesize variable.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854367
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00039.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4513-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0180
EPSS Percentile 75.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (3)
apng2gif_project/apng2gif 1.7
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
Published Mar 17, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026