CVE-2017-16938

high

Published 2017-11-24 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0.7.6-1.1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0.7.6-1.1`
debian	forky	fixed	`0.7.6-1.1`
debian	sid	fixed	`0.7.6-1.1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0.7.6-1.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
optipng_project	optipng	`0.7.6`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.