CVE-2017-6962

HIGH

apng2gif 1.7 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow via Integer Overflow in read_chunk

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 overflow. This is related to the read_chunk function making an unchecked addition of 12.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854447

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0130
EPSS Percentile 66.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-190
Status published
Products (1)
apng2gif_project/apng2gif 1.7
Published Mar 17, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026