Debian: CVE-2017-6961: apng2gif -- security update
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
03/17/2017
02/08/2022
02/07/2022
02/07/2022
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.
Solution(s)
- debian-upgrade-apng2gif
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