Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package apng2gif  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-APNG2GIF-450138
  • published17 Mar 2017
  • disclosed17 Mar 2017

Introduced: 17 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6961  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apng2gif package and not the apng2gif package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.