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Ubuntu: USN-4513-1 (CVE-2017-6960): apng2gif vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4513-1 (CVE-2017-6960): apng2gif vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/17/2017
Created
09/22/2020
Added
09/18/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in apng2gif 1.7. There is an integer overflow resulting in a heap-based buffer over-read, related to the load_apng function and the imagesize variable.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-apng2gif

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