CVE-2015-7555

medium

Published 2016-04-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in giffix.c in giffix in giflib 5.1.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (program crash) via crafted image and logical screen width fields in a GIF file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Fedora Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
22	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.1.2-0.1`
sid	Fixed	`5.1.2-0.1`
forky	Fixed	`5.1.2-0.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.1.2-0.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`5.1.2-0.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
giflib_project	giflib	`{"endIncluding":"5.1.1"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.