CVE-2017-6961

Publication date 17 March 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
apng2gif 24.10 oracular
Fixed 1.8-0.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1.8-0.1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 1.8-0.1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 1.8-0.1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 1.8-0.1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.8-0.1
21.10 impish
Fixed 1.8-0.1
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 1.8-0.1
20.10 groovy
Fixed 1.8-0.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.8-0.1
19.10 eoan
Fixed 1.8-0.1
19.04 disco
Fixed 1.8-0.1
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H