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NVD Vulnerability Details :

CVE-2017-6961

Deferred

Source-cve@mitre.org

Published At-17 Mar, 2017 | 09:59

Updated At-20 Apr, 2025 | 01:37

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.

Date Added	Due Date	Vulnerability Name	Required Action
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Type	Version	Base score	Base severity	Vector
Primary	3.0	5.5	MEDIUM	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary	2.0	4.3	MEDIUM	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CPE Matches

apng2gif_project>>apng2gif>>1.7

cpe:2.3:a:apng2gif_project:apng2gif:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Weaknesses

CWE ID	Type	Source
CWE-20	Primary	nvd@nist.gov

References

Hyperlink	Source	Resource
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854441	cve@mitre.org	Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854441	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

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