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CVE-2017-6961

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.80%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-03-17 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2017-6961
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.80%

Original NVD 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.