Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20176961000
Revision Date:2017-03-17Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-6961 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-6961
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND The vulnerability of the 'apng2gif' package in bionic is not known (status: 'needs-triage'). It is pending evaluation.
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