Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting apng2gif package, versions <1.8-0.1~deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-APNG2GIF-300390
  • published17 Mar 2017
  • disclosed17 Mar 2017

Introduced: 17 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6962  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 apng2gif to version 1.8-0.1~deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apng2gif package and not the apng2gif package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.