CVE-2017-6961

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Published 2017-03-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

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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

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.

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

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.8-0.1`
sid	Fixed	`1.8-0.1`
forky	Fixed	`1.8-0.1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.8-0.1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.8-0.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apng2gif_project	apng2gif	`1.7`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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