Out-of-Bounds Affecting optipng package, versions [,0.7.6]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.86% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPTIPNG-2380451
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16938  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for optipng.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack or other unspecified impact with a maliciously crafted GIF format file, related to an uncontrolled loop in the LZWReadByte function of the gifread.c file.

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