CVE-2017-6962 is a high-severity integer overflow vulnerability in apng2gif 1.7, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow due to an unchecked addition in the read_chunk function. This flaw allows for a denial of service (availability impact) and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges. While rated as high severity with a CVSS score of 7.5, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apng2gif_project:apng2gif:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.