Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 17, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-6961
CVE-2017-6961
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.
Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:apng2gif_project:apng2gif:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
1- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
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