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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPTIPNG-2380452
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Apr 2016

CVE-2015-7802  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade optipng to version 0.7.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds gifread.c in gif2png, as used in OptiPNG before 0.7.6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) via a crafted GIF file.

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