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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-17T08:55:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:49:02.881Z

Reserved: 2017-03-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-6961

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-03-17T09:59:00.287

Modified: 2017-03-20T16:58:37.873

Link: CVE-2017-6961

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