CVE-2017-16938

Upstream information

CVE-2017-16938 at MITRE

Description

A global buffer overflow in OptiPNG 0.7.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service attack or other unspecified impact with a maliciously crafted GIF format file, related to an uncontrolled loop in the LZWReadByte function of the gifread.c file.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1069774 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2017:3162-1, published Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:09:20 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	optipng >= 0.7.7-2.3	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA optipng-0.7.7-2.3